From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 19 10:05:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17699 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:05:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk [137.205.192.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17670 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:05:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk) Received: from lupin.csv.warwick.ac.uk (lupin [137.205.192.14]) by snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA23018; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:05:00 GMT Received: (from csubl@localhost) by lupin.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA01711; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:04:54 GMT From: Mr M P Searle Message-Id: <199901191804.SAA01711@lupin.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Large block size for very large files In-Reply-To: from Joe Gleason at "Jan 15, 99 02:08:47 pm" To: clash@tasam.com (Joe Gleason) Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:04:53 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a backup drive (8gb) and I tar the rest of my system onto that > drive, so the only thing sitting on the backup drive is my 3-4gb tar file. > > Would it be wise for me to increse my block size so that this filesystem > would have less overhead that I don't need? > If you're not putting anything else on that partition, you could tar directly to the device without having any overhead from a filesystem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message