From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 15 00:09:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA29711 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:09:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA29705 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:09:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA29354; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:38:44 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id SAA16381; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:38:45 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981215183845.J15815@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:38:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Pavel V. Antipov" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About floppy, please References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Pavel V. Antipov on Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 10:44:57AM +0300 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 15 December 1998 at 10:44:57 +0300, Pavel V. Antipov wrote: > Hi ! > > When I formatted 1.4M floppy as discribed in /etc/disktab, I got > 1218K total disk space and 1180K free disk space. > > But I want to have 1440K total disk space. > > How can I format floppy correctly ? This has nothing to do with formatting floppies. The floppies always have 1.4 MB space, but the file system on the floppy has a lot of overhead (so do Microsoft floppies, but you don't see that). > 1. fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fd0.1440 So far, so good. > 2. disklabel -B -r -w /dev/fd0.1440 fd1440 > 3. newfs -t 2 -u 18 /dev/fd0.1440 To get full value, don't do this. Instead use tar to save data on the floppy. It's faster, and it uses the complete storage space. 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