Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 02:48:44 -0800 (PST) From: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <199611261048.CAA19854@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> It still bugs me that newfs (or better: UFS) is often wasting so many > sectors at the end of a partition since it also still believes that > disks have something like a uniform geometry that can be expressed in > terms of cylinders, heads, and sectors... I wrote an ad-hoc brute-force program to determine the optimal -u paramter between 2048 and 4096 which will minimize the number of wasted cylinders. I suggest we add the few lines to do this to newfs.
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