Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:35:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c Message-ID: <200110160735.f9G7ZDK59504@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20011015215519.A394@student.uu.se>
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Erik Trulsson wrote: > [ Cc: list trimmed] > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 12:47:04PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > There is a substantial amount of drives out there stil that are < 1GB. > > Also, consider floppy && SANdisk types of devices. > > > > > > > > > > Like 8k/1k for <1GB and 16k/2k for >1GB ? Can be done I think. I'll have a > > > > look at that but bde has probably already written that patch years ago :-) > > > > > > is this 1GB limit really accurate ? > > > do you know any todays drives lower than 4GB ? > > Also note that the limit discussed is for *filesystem* size. Not drive > size. Even if the disk itself might be quite large it is not unusual > that some of the filesystems on the disk are fairly small. > (For example '/' '/var' and '/tmp' are often separate > filesystems smaller than 1 GB.) oops, sorry, forgot about that %-| next time, I'll turn 7 times my fingers around the keyboard before to write something like this... Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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