Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:05:59 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> To: phang@cpm.com.my Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newfs on a floppy disk Message-ID: <199603201305.IAA00545@neon.Glock.COM> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.960320123034.phang@cpm.com.my> from "k.k phang" at Mar 20, 96 12:17:22 pm
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k.k phang writes:
> Can someone out there tell me how to construct a new file system on a
> floppy disk?
There are step by step instructions at the top of
/etc/disktab.
> This was my attempt, no luck.
Hmm.
> cluck: {10} disklabel -r -w /dev/rfd1a floppy3
> cluck: {11} newfs /dev/rfd1a
> Warning: Block size and bytes per inode restrict cylinders per group to 5.
> Warning: 1216 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
> /dev/rfd1a: 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,
> clusk: {12}
That appears to have been successful. Try mounting the
floppy...
-matt
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