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Date:      Sat, 15 Jun 1996 22:48:57 GMT
From:      James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
To:        edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Floppy Disk Formatting?
Message-ID:  <199606152248.WAA13052@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960614142424.20222H-100000@shaman.lycaeum.org> (edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org)

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> Any method to formatting and putting a new file system on and getting even
> close to the 1.44k on these floppy filesystems?

The newfs command has a set of default options which give reasonable
values for creating a filesystem on a hard disk. For a floppy, these
represent a grossly excessive number of inodes (which is where all
that space disappeared to).

Try

newfs -l 1 -i 65536 -t 2 -u 18 fd0

instead.

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
jraynard@FreeBSD.ORG




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