From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 3 12:45:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B2937B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:45:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39D043F9B for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:45:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryan@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1079) id CAFCCAE1C1; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:45:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:45:24 -0800 From: Ryan Dooley To: Bill Moran Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommendations on the newfs of a 1.0TB fs... Message-ID: <20030203204524.GB56152@elvis.mu.org> References: <20030203194828.GA55143@elvis.mu.org> <3E3ED0D4.6070601@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E3ED0D4.6070601@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'd consider fixing the situation thats causing it to need fscked before > doing > anything else! Heh.. yeah. Normally my box doesn't crash. The last time the box was down for any thing other than a maintaince window was over a year ago. I'd say the box was rock solid :-) > Sounds like you have enough users to have a pretty good idea of the average > bytes per file. Use -i to specify that when you newfs. Don't overdo it! > It's > pretty frustrating to have 400G left on the drive an no inodes left to > create > any new files, but if you've got 50% of the space full and only 20% of the > inodes, > you can definately adjust this some. I'm wondering what values I might try for -i that might be reasonable. > There's also -g and -h options. I'm not sure what effect these have, > however. Yeah, I saw those options as well, but since this is an academic environment, "average" doesn't apply :-) Cheers, Ryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message