Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:01:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> To: Francisco Reyes <reyes01@ibm.net> Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to format a floppy disk for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960824110056.108423D-100000@homer01.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608241625.QAA46568@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net>
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On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I tried the FAQ, the Handbook and the Email archives and could not > find how to format a floppy disk for FreeBSD. I did find how to mount > it for DOS though. Here's the comment from /etc/disktab about floppies: # To make a filesystem on a floppy: # fdformat [-f <size>] fd<drive>[.<size>] # disklabel -B -r -w fd<drive>[.<size>] fd<size> # newfs <opts> fd<drive>[.<size>] # # with <opts>: # -t 2 - two heads # -u 9|15|18 - sectors per track # (using the default value of 1/4096 is not much useful for floppies) # -l 1 - interleave 1 (for most floppies) # -i 65536 - bytes of data per i-node # (the default -i value will render you with a floppy wasting way # too much space in i-node areas) Ken
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