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From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
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Yonny Cardenas wrote:

How do I can a tar of file with size 2.3 MB to floppies 1.44Mb in
FreeBSD ?
> 
> I'am creating floppies for FreeBSD, with the following secuence of
> commands:
> 
> #fdformat -f 1440 fd0.1440
> #disklabel -w -r /dev/rfd0.1440 floppy3
> #newfs -t 2 -u 18 -l 1 -i 65536 /dev/rfd0.1440
> 

  To write a multi-disk archive on the floppy : tar cvMf /dev/rfd0 file

  to read back: tar xvMf /dev/rfd0

You will need only the low-level format. Disklabelling or newfs'ing is
not required.

 
Jim Durham <Television Engineer-Unitel Mobile Video, Pittsburgh>
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