From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 4 04:53:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id EAA00897 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 04:53:46 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA00889 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 04:53:43 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id HAA24236; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 07:45:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 07:45:22 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: newfs fd0.1440--bad results To: hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk under 2.0.5R the newfs command recommended in /etc/disktab results in ~1216 sector unused out of a total of 2880. the recommended command is 'newfs fd[.]' as in newfs fd0.1440 'newfs -t 2 -u 18 fd0' results in no wasted floppy disk space. the file system type is reported as 'unused' ;( results at end jmb Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346 kooka: {16} disklabel -r fd0 # /dev/rfd0c: type: unknown disk: fd1440 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 18 tracks/cylinder: 2 sectors/cylinder: 36 cylinders: 80 sectors/unit: 2880 rpm: 300 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 3 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 2880 0 unused 512 4096 # (Cyl. 0 - 79) b: 2880 0 unused 512 4096 # (Cyl. 0 - 79) c: 2880 0 unused 512 4096 # (Cyl. 0 - 79)