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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 1995 18:19:15 +0100 (MET)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        gcrutcher@datatrek.com (Gary Crutcher)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Floppy Disk Formatting
Message-ID:  <199509261719.SAA09512@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <26091995065048410.II41@datatrek.com> from "Gary Crutcher" at Sep 26, 95 06:48:48 am

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how to get the full 1.44 MB use out of a floppy 
> diskette.  I ran: fdformat, disklabel, & newfs and did not get very much 
> disk space available on the diskette.  Is there something I should have 
> done?

Do you need a FS on that floppy? Would taring to the raw devices (character
device) be sufficient?
I believe the default parameters to newfs'ing a floppy aren't that efficient.

Try 

newfs -b 4096 -c 80 -f 512 -i 8192 -m 0 -o space fd0 fd1440

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary
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> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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