Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!rutgers!att!cord!nsw
From: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: How can I tell if I'm running FFS?
Keywords: 1.3, FFS, Overdrive, ST157N
Message-ID: <621@cord.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 21:31:57 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The Flying Squid Patrol
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Yes, I know, a silly-sounding question.

When I got 1.3, I went through the whole rigamarole of getting 
an FFS partition up on my ST-157N/Overdrive setup.  I edited my 
mountlist to create a 3 cylinder old FS partition and the rest 
FFS.  I am pretty sure I have everything in there correct.

I then mounted FS1 and formatted it.  I did not specify the FFS
option to format because the 1.3 Enhancer manual specifically
says that if you mount the partition properly and all the right stuff is
specified in the mountlist, then format should do FFS automatically
(yes, I was using the 1.3 mount command).  I also formatted the
old FS partition.

Now everything's up and running fine.  However, nothing seems
to be running any faster than before.  I added 30 buffers and 
did not perceive any speedup.  Furthermore, I did not specify the
MAXTRANSFER field in my mountlist, and previous postings seemed to
indicate that I'm destined for problems using an Overdrive and not
specifying MAXTRANSFER.  However, I've experienced no problems
whatsoever.  I am therefore beginning to suspect that maybe I missed
some step in the process and am running old FS (???).

So:  How can I absolutely confirm that I am in fact running FFS on
my supposed FFS partition?  I can find nothing in the Enhancer
to indicate that there's a command which will show what file system
is running on any particular mounted device.

Any advice on this would be most appreciated.

P.S.  I thought that after I reformatted I had noticed a couple more
megs of space on the hard drive which I thought was a sure indication
that I was running FFS, but now I'm not so sure if I'm remembering
correctly (I'm hardly sure of my own name nowadays).  I'm getting 
about 47 Megs on my ST157N right now.

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