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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:06:15AM +0000, Geoff Buckingham wrote:
> However I just read the newfs man page and am intrigued to know what effect
> the -g and -h options have....
> 
>      -g avgfilesize
>              The expected average file size for the file system.
> 
>      -h avgfpdir
>              The expected average number of files per directory on the file
>              system.

I believe these are used by the dirpref stuff to decide how to distribute
files and directories evenly throughout the dis.

	David.