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Article #416Re: filesystems and "free space"
From: Michael Faurot
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 12:29
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 12:29
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In article <1992Oct5.113145.28333@ms.uky.edu> kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes: > >Sorry, no hard figures here, but we ran our news partition (350 megs or >so at the time) with 0% held back for quite a while. Fragmentation >never became a problem, though of course we never allowed it to >completely fill for any length of time. That's exactly the reasons I was asking about this in the first place. I'm currently running a 30M partition which is exclusively for use by news and nothing else. I've used tunefs to change the free space from the default 10% down to 2%. BTW: What do you do to determine the fragmentation? Are you refering to the messages generated by fsck, or some other utiltiy? -- +--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+ | Michael Faurot | Domain: mfaurot@bogart.UUCP | | ------- ------ | UUCP: ...uunet!media!ka3ovk!irscscm!bogart!mfaurot | +--------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!prometheus!media!irscscm!bogart!mfaurot From: mfaurot@bogart.uucp (Michael Faurot) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent Subject: Re: filesystems and "free space" Message-ID: <1992Oct8.122911.28986@bogart.uucp> Date: 8 Oct 92 12:29:11 GMT References: <1992Oct2.213912.1457@bogart.uucp> <2783@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1992Oct5.113145.28333@ms.uky.edu> Distribution: na Organization: ism:c:m/xo Lines: 20