From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 11:01:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA20474 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:01:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA20469 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from homer01.u.washington.edu by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.7.5+UW96.08/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 † id LAA21424; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:02:40 -0700 Received: from localhost by homer01.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.08/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA151434; Sat, 24 Aug 96 11:01:42 -0700 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 11:01:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: How to format a floppy disk for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <199608241625.QAA46568@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ] fd[.] # disklabel -B -r -w fd[.] fd # newfs fd[.] # # with : # -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