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Date:      Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:59:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
To:        Don whY <Don.whY@gmx.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Hackers Mailing List <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: format/newfs larger external consumer drives
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507101858480.2085@laptop.wojtek.intra>
In-Reply-To: <559EDAB8.9080804@gmx.com>
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> When building a filesystem (FFS) on these 1/2/3/4TB external USB
> drives, any suggestions?  E.g., changing block sizes?  Cut into
> multiple slices to make fsck's job easier (as well as *recovery*)?

i would assume you will most likely store large files.

newfs -m 0 -i 262144 -b 65536 -f 8192 -U /dev/yourdisk

and it will be fast to fsck.




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