Re: formatting new partition

2001-01-05 Thread john gennard
On Thursday 04 January 2001 7:37 pm, David B. Harris wrote: > To quote john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # It seems formatting can be done with 'mkfs' - most of the manpage > # is (hopefully!) clear, but I have seen no guidance on what block > # sizes would be appropriate or what the advantages/

Re: formatting new partition

2001-01-04 Thread David B . Harris
To quote john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # It seems formatting can be done with 'mkfs' - most of the manpage # is (hopefully!) clear, but I have seen no guidance on what block # sizes would be appropriate or what the advantages/disadvantages # of different ones are. 512 and 8192 may well be the e