From 64dee60f8c832390d4dd7d502b54550b77ae498b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:55:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] o Add an example for a large file system. o Remove bug about
 boot blocks hating non-8k file systems.  This hasn't been   the case for a
 long time.

Not Objected to by: hackers, doc
---
 sbin/newfs/newfs.8 | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
index c1f6b494a963..8c4634ffc2ce 100644
--- a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
+++ b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
@@ -335,18 +335,20 @@ man page for possible options and their meanings.
 .El
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 .Pp
+.Dl newfs -b 16384 -f 4096 -c 100 /dev/ad3s1a
+.Pp
+Creates a new ufs file system on ad3s1a.
+.Nm
+will use a block size of 16384 bytes, a fragement size of 4096 bytes
+and have 100 cylinders per cylinder group rather than the defaults.
+These values are tend to produce better performance than the defaults
+for file systems larger than about 5 gigabytes.
+.Pp
 .Dl mount_mfs -s 131072 -o nosuid,nodev /dev/da0s1b /tmp
 .Pp
 Mount a 64 MB large memory file system on /tmp, with
 .Xr mount 8
 options nosuid and nodev.
-.Sh BUGS
-The boot code of
-.Fx
-assumes that the file system that carries the
-kernel has blocks of 8 kilobytes and fragments of 1 kilobyte.
-You will
-not be able to boot from a file system that uses another size.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr fdformat 1 ,
 .Xr disktab 5 ,