Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:38:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Pavel V. Antipov" <pavel@ikar.elect.ru>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About floppy, please Message-ID: <19981215183845.J15815@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981215103347.6599A-100000@ikar.elect.ru>; from Pavel V. Antipov on Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 10:44:57AM %2B0300 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981215103347.6599A-100000@ikar.elect.ru>
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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
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