From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 3 14:13:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E45F37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:13:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A73DE43F43 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:13:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h13MEiT5072070; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:14:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E3EE92C.6050809@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:11:56 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Ryan Dooley , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommendations on the newfs of a 1.0TB fs... References: <20030203194828.GA55143@elvis.mu.org> <3E3ED0D4.6070601@potentialtech.com> <20030203204524.GB56152@elvis.mu.org> <3E3EDB73.6030205@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Bill Moran writes: > >>Do the math. df -hi will tell you the number of bytes and inodes used. >>Do a simple bytes/inodes and add about 10% just to be sure. >>That should take care of you. > > You should *subtract* to be sure. Specify to newfs an average file > size which is slightly lower than the measured average file size, so > it creates slightly more inodes than you need. Yes ... what he said ... (This may explain why I can never balance my checkbook ...) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message