Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:16:20 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> To: "Pavel V. Antipov" <pavel@ikar.elect.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About floppy, please Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.95b.981215001258.87442A-100000@goodall2.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981215103347.6599A-100000@ikar.elect.ru>
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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Pavel V. Antipov wrote: > When I formatted 1.4M floppy as discribed in /etc/disktab, I got > 1218K total disk space and 1180K free disk space. > > But I want to have 1440K total disk space. > > How can I format floppy correctly ? > > 1. fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0.1440 > 2. disklabel -B -r -w /dev/fd0.1440 fd1440 > 3. newfs -t 2 -u 18 /dev/fd0.1440 I can't say you'll get the whole 1440K, but if you use: newfs -t 2 -u 18 -l 1 -i 65536 /dev/rfd0 You'll set the interleave to 1 (not sure what default is) and the bytes-per-i-node to 65536. The default i-node value is a waste of space on a disk as small as a floppy. Kenneth J. Marsh University of Washington durang@u.washington.edu Chemical Engineering To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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