Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 10:27:15 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>, chris@sloth.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppy Message-ID: <19981217102715.V486@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812162338.PAA16030@pau-amma.whistle.com>; from David Wolfskill on Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 03:38:53PM -0800 References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981216181307.26783A-100000@sin.sloth.org> <199812162338.PAA16030@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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On Wednesday, 16 December 1998 at 15:38:53 -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: >> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:14:33 -0500 (EST) >> From: Chris McCoy <chris@sloth.org> > >> i am having trouble mounting the floppy > >> i do mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > >> and gives me an error "/dev/fd0 on /mnt : Incorrect super block > > In order to "mount" the floppy, the floppy needs to have a file system > built on it. See the man page for "newfs" for information on doing > this, but fair warning: floppies are a little "unusual" (in limited > capacity and removability), compared to the usual media for UNIX > filesystems. Either difference is capable of contributing to > "interesting" situations. In particular, you should ask yourself if you even want a file system on a floppy. In general, you'd be well advised to avoid floppies: they're slow, unreliable and expensive per unit storage. About the only thing you should use them for is exchange of small quantities of data, and file systems are unsuited for that. If you're exchanging with UNIX systems, use tar on the raw floppy instead. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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