Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (R. Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: newfs -m options Keywords: SunOS Message-ID: <620@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 31 Jul 89 14:49:40 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 21 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 89, message 4 of 14 >I have recently used the -m option to reserve half of the normal 10% on 2 >of our 892 MB disks. We've only been running on these disks for about a >month, but so far I haven't been sorry I did it. Instead of losing 88MB >to free space I picked up about 45MB extra space on the disk. Since we do >not run quotas I don't ever see this being a problem. You might want to check on the -o option if you use -m. By using -m to set the free space to less than 10%, the filesystem is optimized for disk space usage by default. If 10% or greater, the file system is optimized for speed. You can override these defaults using -o. R. Poffenberger poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies ATE division. ...In a dictatorship, people siffer without complaining, In a democracy, people complain without suffering.