From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 22 16:42:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AED737B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:42:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.netmails.net (dsl-65-189-239-65.telocity.com [65.189.239.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C65A43ED8 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 16:42:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from subscr@spider.netmails.net) Received: (qmail 6156 invoked by uid 1014); 23 Dec 2002 00:41:13 -0000 Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:41:13 -0600 From: Hari Bhaskaran To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: newfs -i and -f options with vinum Message-ID: <20021222184113.A6131@spider.netmails.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I need to create a partition that will be used to store large number of small files (qmail Maildir) I normally (without vinum in the picture) do this via newfs -i 2048 -f 512 /dev/... So when using newfs to create an fs via vinum, I am assuming I have to specify -i and -f options in addition to -v. However, I noticed that these options where also specified under disklabel for the entire vinum drive (I saw fsize and bsize - which I assume will be fragment size and block size). So my questions is:- Is it possible to specify these settings only for one volume (where I store my mail files)? Does it mean I can ignore the settings that I saw in disklabel (-e)? Any help is appreciated (Thanks Greg for the earlier reply) -- Hari Bhaskaran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message