From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 11:22:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FFCC37B404 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 11:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA01034; Tue, 7 May 2002 14:22:44 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 14:22:44 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: Nathan Kinkade Cc: Mozgi_na_stene , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ~ help me ~ In-Reply-To: <20020507084101.26b1b3e1.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello - On Tue, 7 May 2002, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 2002 16:27:54 +0400 > Mozgi_na_stene wrote: > > > At me FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE. I want to prepare a diskette for work: > > 1) fdformat fd0 > > All is normal > > 2) I create on a flexible disk /dev/fd0 file system Linux - mkfs -t > > ext2 /dev/fd0 I press ENTER, message, that such team (mkfs) IS NOT > > PRESENT! As it is possible to prepare a diskette for work or how to > > establish mkfs. > 'mkfs' is not a freebsd utility - at least not that I know of. 'newfs' > is the FreeBSD utility for creating new filesystems. However, 'newfs' > creates ufs filesystems. Take a look at e2fsprogs in the ports > collection if you need to make ext2 filesystems. I looked into the .config (kernel+module 'build' configuration) on our RH-7.2 installation, and 'ufs' is an available filesystem type, as are 'bfs' ("SCO bfs") and 'sysv'. (Actually there are a number; see 'man mount' on a LInux box.) That said, I would only expect a few of the most common types to have been built - ext2, msdos, vfat, and ext3 would be a reasonable selection for many people. You may have to configure and build a Linux kernel supporting [say] 'ufs', then you would format the diskette ('fdformat') and use "# mkfs -t ufs " to create the filesystem. Or, use 'newfs' in FreeBSD and "# mount -t ufs ..." to mount the diskette in Linux. DISCLAIMER: I haven't used all these types. I an not a Linux configuration expert, and don't even play one on TV (but I do configure and build kernels sometimes). - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message