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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:11:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Peter Ulrich (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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Subject: Re: how do i format a floppy?
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Aaron Namba wrote:

Try these three:

# fdformat -f 1440 fd0.1440
# disklabel -B -r -w fd0.1440 fd1440
# newfs -t 2 -u 18 -l 1 -c 40 -i 5120 -m 5 -o space fd0.1440

Uli.
>
> I formatted a floppy using:
> > fdformat /dev/fd0.1440
>
> Now I want to mount it, but that didn't work so I figure I need to create a
> file system on it first using newfs. However, newfs complains that I need to
> use disklabel. That I am not sure how to do. Please advise.
>
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