From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 16 0:35:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.noos.fr (racine.noos.net [212.198.2.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3962F37B401 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 00:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6239709 invoked by uid 0); 16 Oct 2001 07:35:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.231.187]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.71 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Oct 2001 07:35:16 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9G7ZDK59504; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:35:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <200110160735.f9G7ZDK59504@gits.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c In-Reply-To: <20011015215519.A394@student.uu.se> To: Erik Trulsson Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 09:35:12 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Matthew Jacob , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net From: Cyrille Lefevre Organization: ACME X-Face: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94c (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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