From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 10 09:09:48 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA01594 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 09:09:48 -0700 Received: from sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (sivka.carrier.kiev.ua [193.125.68.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA01441 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 09:06:21 -0700 Received: from elvisti.kiev.ua (uucp@localhost) by sivka.carrier.kiev.ua (Sendmail 8.who.cares/5) with UUCP id TAA17758 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 19:05:01 +0300 Received: from office.elvisti.kiev.ua (office.elvisti.kiev.ua [193.125.28.33]) by spider2.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA06606 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 18:37:34 +0300 Received: (from stesin@localhost) by office.elvisti.kiev.ua (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA11237 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Sep 1995 18:37:33 +0300 From: "Andrew V. Stesin" Message-Id: <199509101537.SAA11237@office.elvisti.kiev.ua> Subject: Block size for new filesystems during install? To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 18:37:33 +0300 (EET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24alpha5] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 497 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, while installing 2.0.5-RELEASE from a CDROM: is it _really_ no way to specify a block/fragment size for an install' initiated newfs? Everything is Ok while I really want 8k/1k layout, but if I want 4k/0.5k for news server... how? Is it still A Bad Thing (tm) to have filesystems with a different block size on a single box, as was mentioned by someone of wizards (Mr. Dyson?) long ago? -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560