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Subject: Large Disk.
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Hi,
	I had an instal of FreeBSD-3 on my machine which booted Linux or
FreeBSD. Yesterday I decided to scrub the Linux and also go back to
2.2.2-RELEASE. Now my machine slows to a crawl on disk access (in biowait
on top). And some programs refuse to return e.g. ps.
	
dmesg on the disks gives:

>wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
>wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM3840A>
>wd0: 3681MB (7539840 sectors), 7480 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S

df -k gives:

>Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>/dev/wd0a      394495    39314   323622    11%    /
>/dev/wd0s3e   2714254  1075335  1421779    43%    /usr
>/dev/wd0s4e    429839     7522   387930     2%    /var
>procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc

	So the question is, is this a result of going back to 2.2.2 or is
it the large partions ?


Regards,
	Dave.