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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Changing block and fragment size on existing partition...
To: cptacek@sitaranetworks.com (Chris Ptacek)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:42:43 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <31269226357BD211979E00A0C9866DAB02BB998D@rios.sitaranetworks.com> from "Chris Ptacek" at Aug 27, 2002 01:13:55 PM
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> 
> I would like to change the block, fragment, and 
> minfree settings for an existing partition on my
> system.  My question is what are the steps I need
> to do in order to accomplish this?  Can I simply
> do a newfs -f 512 -b 4096 -m 15 /dev/wd0s1e or do
> I need to do some disklabel or other modifications?

Oresuming you mean a BSD partition and not a DOS partition which
is a slice in FreeBSD, eg wd0s1e (the e partition within s1 slice)
has already been created, then you only need the newfs.   Also, I
presume that you know that the newfs will wipe anything that is
already on that partition.   So backup anything important.

////jerry

> 
>   - Chris
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