From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 3 13:34:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD6F937B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:34:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4DE43F85 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:34:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 87EDE536E; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:34:40 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Bill Moran Cc: Ryan Dooley , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recommendations on the newfs of a 1.0TB fs... From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 22:34:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3E3EDB73.6030205@potentialtech.com> (Bill Moran's message of "Mon, 03 Feb 2003 16:13:23 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) References: <20030203194828.GA55143@elvis.mu.org> <3E3ED0D4.6070601@potentialtech.com> <20030203204524.GB56152@elvis.mu.org> <3E3EDB73.6030205@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran writes: > Do the math. df -hi will tell you the number of bytes and inodes used. > Do a simple bytes/inodes and add about 10% just to be sure. > That should take care of you. You should *subtract* to be sure. Specify to newfs an average file size which is slightly lower than the measured average file size, so it creates slightly more inodes than you need. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message