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diff --git a/usr.sbin/sade/help/partition.hlp b/usr.sbin/sade/help/partition.hlp index a6de29e..9b5a822 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/sade/help/partition.hlp +++ b/usr.sbin/sade/help/partition.hlp @@ -126,16 +126,20 @@ with significant activity can temporarily overflow if the soft updates policy results in free'd blocks not being "garbage collected" as fast as they're being requested. -To make use of UFS2, press '2' on a UFS file system to toggle the -on-disk format revision. UFS2 provides native support for extended -attributes, larger disk sizes, and forward compatibility with new -on-disk high performance directory layout and storage extents. -However, UFS2 is unsupported on versions of FreeBSD prior to 5.0, -so it is not recommended for environments requiring backward -compatibility. Also, UFS2 is not currently recommended as a root -file system format for non-64-bit platforms due to increased size -of the boot loader; special local configuration is required to boot -UFS2 as a root file system on i386 and PC98. +The UNIX File System (UFS) on FreeBSD supports two different on-disk +layouts: UFS1 and UFS2. UFS1 was the default file system in use +through FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE; as of FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE, the default +is now UFS2. UFS2 provides sparse inode allocation (faster +fsck), 64-bit storage pointers (larger maximum size), and native +extended attributes (required for ACLs, MAC, and other advanced +security and file system services). The selection of UFS1 or +UFS2 must be made when the file system is created--later conversion +is not currently possible. UFS2 is the recommended file system, but +if disks are to be used on older FreeBSD systems, UFS1 improves +portability. When dual-booting between FreeBSD 4.x or earlier and +FreeBSD 5.x, UFS1 file systems will be accessible from both. +To toggle a file system to UFS1, press '1'. To restore it to UFS2, +press '2'. To add additional flags to the newfs command line for UFS file systems, press 'N'. These options will be specified before the |
