From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 14:10:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.franken.de (elvis.franken.de [193.175.24.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7187137B412 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:10:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tanis@gaspode.franken.de) Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15AeNQ-0000sh-00; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:10:04 +0200 Received: from gaspode.franken.de (lengfeld.core.main.franken.de [193.141.110.4]) by karnickel.franken.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5ELA0U73059; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:10:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tanis@gaspode.franken.de) Received: (from tanis@localhost) by gaspode.franken.de (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5ELA0I13644; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:10:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from tanis) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:10:00 +0200 From: German Tischler To: Aaron Namba Cc: Cynic , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do i format a floppy? Message-ID: <20010614231000.A13618@gaspode.franken.de> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010614225554.0205f5b0@mail.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5-current-20010403i In-Reply-To: ; from aaron@namba1.com on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:58:38PM -0700 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 On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:58:38PM -0700, Aaron Namba wrote: > I want to use ufs, does that work for floppies? I thought so but I could be > wrong. > > newfs_msdos -f 1440 fd0 works, but newfs -f 1440 fd0 complains about needing > a disklabel. disklabel -r -w /dev/fd0 fd1440 works for me. Then go on and use newfs. --gt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message