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Re: Half the size



Christer Sandvik wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Christer Sandvik
<christer.sandvik%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
 > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Christer Sandvik
 > <christer.sandvik%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
 >
 >> Hello
 >>
>> I ran newfs on two RZ25-E disks but it created filesystems half the disk >> size which is not what is wanted. My experience of creating filesystems >> with newfs is small and could someone tell me which parameters would be
 >>  used to correct this problem.
 >>
 >
 > Is it possible that you are seeing a filesystem size in 1kB blocks
 > while expecting to see one in 512B sectors?
 >
 >     carl
 >
I ran df and it showed them as 200 MB which confirmed that so what's up?
 Is there any chance parameters was left out?


Doesn't newfs create file systems to fit disk partitions?  Did you
partition your disks?  Eventually I will get lost at knowing details
of netbsd, but this seems fairly fundamental.

    carl
Yes they do but maybe something have happened earlier, could an dd /dev/null to disk have damaged sectors which newfs writes to?

Christer



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