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Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> The default is 8K blocks, with 1K frags.  News spools usually are
> formatted at 4K/512b; I have a couple of 60GB archive volumes at
> 16K/2K. Usually fragsize is blocksize/8.
> 


Why FreeBSD does not allow me to set my FreeBSD slices 512 bytes blocks
long ?
I set my NewFS options to -b 512 -f 1024 and it returned with a status
1.

Is that possible to have this size (512 bytes) ?

Thanks a lot!

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