Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 11:59:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: otto@hol.gr (Syntichakis Christopher) Subject: File systems on floppies (Was: no subject) Message-ID: <199606081040.MAA00653@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199606080026.WAA26626@prometheus.hol.gr> from "Syntichakis Christopher" at Jun 7, 96 10:26:15 pm
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Syntichakis Christopher writes: > > (many empty lines omitted) > Hi, > I am trying to format some 3.5 HD disks for use with the FreeBSD 2.1 > I tried the following procedure: > > # fdformat -f1440 /dev/fd0.1440 > (works fine but sometimes it reports some errors like: > > fd0: input ready timeout > > NOTE that under X11 it works without any error) > > # disklabel -w -r /dev/fd0.1440 floppy3 > (works ok too..) > > # newfs /dev/fd0.1440 > (reports these errors) > Warning: Block size and bytes per inode restrict cylinders per group to 5. > Warning: 1216 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated > /dev/rfd0.1440: 2880 sectors in 1 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors > 1.4MB in 1 cyl groups (5 c/g, 10.00MB/g, 4448 i/g) > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > 32, > > So , the 3,5" HD disk has only 851968 bytes free.... > > Any ideas ? Yes. 1. Please specify a subject in your messages, or nobody will read them. 2. The way I got this message, it consisted mainly of empty lines. It was about 3 times as long as it needed to be. If this is in your control, please omit the empty lines in the future. If it isn't, consider using a different mailer. 3. Get the disk install document from ftp://freefall.FreeBSD.org/incoming/disks.ps.gz and read it. It will tell you how to get more storage in a file system on a floppy. It will also tell you why you don't want to do it. Greg
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