From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 21 19:18:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D11B14D35 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 19:18:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA11219; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:47:30 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA78800; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:47:29 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 11:47:29 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens Cc: Alejandro Ramirez , Albert Everett , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: maximum file size Message-ID: <19990822114728.G14964@freebie.lemis.com> References: <37BEB44E.29ED2CD4@webintl.com> <19990821153112.E267@marder-1> <02ce01beebf5$99d2da80$d4630a0a@megared.net.mx> <19990821182544.A451@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990821182544.A451@marder-1>; from Mark Ovens on Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 06:25:45PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 21 August 1999 at 18:25:45 +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Alejandro Ramirez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How can I know the size of the blocks I'm using in my system??? (FreeBSD >> 3.2 Release) >> > > The default block-size is 8kB, so if you let sysinstall newfs your > disks then that's what it'll be. > > dumpfs(8) is the only way that I know (but there are probably > several other ways) of finding the block-size of an existing fs. > The disk must be umounted for dumpfs to work which makes checking > the root fs a bit difficult :-) You can run dumpfs against the raw device: # dumpfs / dumpfs: /dev/wd0s1a: Device busy # dumpfs /dev/rwd0s1a magic 11954 time Sun Aug 22 11:33:14 1999 id [ 0 0 ] cylgrp dynamic inodes 4.4BSD nbfree 427 ndir 131 nifree 2197 nffree 166 (etc) Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message