Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:04:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Mr M P Searle <csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk> To: clash@tasam.com (Joe Gleason) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large block size for very large files Message-ID: <199901191804.SAA01711@lupin.csv.warwick.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990115140139.7624A-100000@tasam.com> from Joe Gleason at "Jan 15, 99 02:08:47 pm"
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> 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
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