From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 26 10:22:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA13422 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 10:22:49 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA13408 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 10:22:39 -0700 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA09512; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 18:19:16 +0100 Message-Id: <199509261719.SAA09512@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: Floppy Disk Formatting To: gcrutcher@datatrek.com (Gary Crutcher) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 18:19:15 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <26091995065048410.II41@datatrek.com> from "Gary Crutcher" at Sep 26, 95 06:48:48 am From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 855 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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 > --------------------------------------------------- > Gary Crutcher voice: 619-431-8400 x140 > Mgr. New Technology fax: 619-431-8448 > Data Trek, Inc. email: gcrutcher@datatrek.com > 5838 Edison Place > Carlsbad, CA. 92008 > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de