Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 8:15:00 MET From: Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> To: jerry@border.com (Jerry Kendall) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newfs on a floppy disk Message-ID: <199603210717.IAA25031@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> In-Reply-To: <96Mar20.093357est.18435-1@janus.border.com>; from "Jerry Kendall" at Mar 20, 96 9:33 am
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Jerry Kendall wrote:
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> On Wed, 20 Mar 1996, k.k phang wrote:
>
>>
>> Can someone out there tell me how to construct a new file system on a
>> floppy disk?
>
> I do it all the time.... Well maybe 3 times a week.
Just out of interest, why?
>> This was my attempt, no luck.
>>
>> cluck: {10} disklabel -r -w /dev/rfd1a floppy3
>
> try 'disklabel -r -w fd1 floppy3'....
>
> Basically you want to put the label on /dev/rfd1c not /dev/rfd1a.
>
> /dev/rfd1a is where you do the 'newfs' ie: 'newfs /dev/rfd1a'...
>
> Use can then mount it...
>
> If you have any trouble, let me know.
If you try doing this, you'll find you're left with about 800 kB on a
3 1/2" floppy: newfs leaves nearly half the disk unused. That's why
you need to specify the geometry. It's still a bad idea to make a ufs
file system on a floppy.
Greg
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