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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c
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 on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:42:32PM -0700
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:42:32PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
>"-c" was a no-brainer as noone has ever argued that a low "-c" was
>prefered (that I've seen).

I can think of one case:  For small filesystems, I often reduce "-c"
to ensure that there are at least 2 cylinder groups (in case one
superblock gets corrupted).  Where there are only 2-3 CG's, I might
juggle "-c" and the slice size to make the last CG the same size as
the other CGs.

Peter

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