newfs -m options

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> From article <4243 at kalliope.rice.edu>, by dinah at shell.com (Dinah Anderson):
> We have several 1 gb disk drives and it does not make a whole lot of sense
> to reserve 100 mb (10%) for space threshold. Has anyone reduced this
> number and if so to what percentage and what are the consequences of doing
> so? Thanks.
> 
> Dinah Anderson 

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.

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