On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, David Scheidt wrote:

> You have almost certainly run out of file fragments.  Space on FFS
> filesystems is allocated in the from of blocks, which are divided into
> fragments.  These blocks are not the same as the physical disk blocks, but
> are a number of sequential disk blocks.  The default FFS block size is 8KB.
> Each FFS block is subdivided into fragments.  The default is 8 fragments per
> block, giving a default frag size of 1KB.  

A very nice, simple, explanation.

What are Cylinder Groups for?

> 
> David Scheidt
> 

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