From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 20 05:06:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA01501 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 05:06:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from neon.Glock.COM (root@neon.glock.com [198.82.228.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA01496 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 05:06:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mmead@localhost) by neon.Glock.COM (8.7.4/8.7.3) id IAA00545; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:05:59 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199603201305.IAA00545@neon.Glock.COM> Subject: Re: newfs on a floppy disk To: phang@cpm.com.my Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:05:59 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "k.k phang" at Mar 20, 96 12:17:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk k.k phang writes: > Can someone out there tell me how to construct a new file system on a > floppy disk? There are step by step instructions at the top of /etc/disktab. > This was my attempt, no luck. Hmm. > cluck: {10} disklabel -r -w /dev/rfd1a floppy3 > cluck: {11} newfs /dev/rfd1a > Warning: Block size and bytes per inode restrict cylinders per group to 5. > Warning: 1216 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated > /dev/rfd1a: 2880 sectors in 1 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors > 1.4MB in 1 cyl groups (5 c/g, 10.00MB/g, 4448 i/g) > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > 32, > clusk: {12} That appears to have been successful. Try mounting the floppy... -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/