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| author | Otto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-01-12 08:56:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Otto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-01-12 08:56:29 +0000 |
| commit | 051804cde8f7cf92912ae93a8c6e3c8e56bacd5f (patch) | |
| tree | baae4868932ad8b5deffc94b1de7dc0611b77039 /sbin/newfs/newfs.8 | |
| parent | 1521a0a9f2fbddad375399c5b99a1f3021608f71 (diff) | |
document the max size of FFS and FFS2 file systems plus some rewording;
with and ok jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/newfs/newfs.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/newfs/newfs.8 | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 index a2bd1548380..2c845cc59cc 100644 --- a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 +++ b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: newfs.8,v 1.61 2007/05/31 19:19:46 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: newfs.8,v 1.62 2008/01/12 08:56:28 otto Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: newfs.8,v 1.12 1995/03/18 14:58:41 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)newfs.8 8.3 (Berkeley) 3/27/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 12 2008 $ .Dt NEWFS 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -176,9 +176,9 @@ format file system. This option is primarily used to build root file systems that can be understood by older boot ROMs. .It 1 -Normal fast file system (default). +Fast File System (the default). .It 2 -Enhanced fast file system (FFS2). +Enhanced Fast File System (FFS2). .El .It Fl o Ar optimization .Ar space @@ -201,9 +201,10 @@ With this option, will not print extraneous information like superblock backups. .It Fl s Ar size The size of the file system in sectors. -The maximum size of a file -system is 2,147,483,647 (2^31 \- 1) sectors, which is slightly less +The maximum size of a Fast File +System is 2,147,483,647 (2^31 \- 1) sectors, which is slightly less than 1TB, assuming a sector size of 512 bytes. +FFS2 file systems can be as large as the maximum partition size supported. Note however that for .Nm mount_mfs the practical limit is based on |