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From: barkdoll@cattell.psych.upenn.edu
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Subject: newfs question
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Date: 4 Jun 91 18:40:00 GMT
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While preparing to set up (newfs -Nv /dev/rsd1h) a new file system i
encountered the following message:

mkfs -N /dev/rsd1h  15876 36 9 8192 1024 16 10 60 2048 t 0 0 8 7
Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (32) >= data blocks (20) in last
    cylinder group. This implies 324 sector(s) cannot be allocated.
/dev/rsd1h:	15552 sectors in 48 cylinders of 9 tracks, 36 sectors
	8.0MB in 3 cyl groups (16 c/g, 2.65MB/g, 1216 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 32, 5264, 10496,


This is on a new 207MB disk from Sun which I reformatted with no
problems, no defects.  I was able to set up sd1a, sd1g with no such
warning.  sd1h *should* have about 12.9 MB rather than 8.0 MB, the
difference being related to the sectors which cannot be allocated, I
assume.  I wasn't able to find an error message like this in the
manuals.  Does anyone know:

(1) what the error means
(2) what significance it has other than lost disk space
(3) how to remedy the problem?

Thanks very much.

-- 
Edwin Barkdoll
barkdoll@cattell.psych.upenn.edu