Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:38:11 +0100 From: Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot mount floppy (Was: No subject) Message-ID: <20001126143811.A5956@p6.frust.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0011260709110.3659-100000@linux.thesadmachine.org>; from bwolter@thesadmachine.org on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:10:18AM -0600 References: <20001126121149.B621@ilex.kicelo.org> <Pine.BSF.4.30.0011260709110.3659-100000@linux.thesadmachine.org>
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On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 07:10:18AM -0600, brian william wolter wrote:
> i formatted the disk with fdformat /dev/fd0 and it (appeared to) work...
> i'm assuming that it would be formatted as a ufs filesystem. am i
> incorrect?
man fdformat:
Note that fdformat does only perform low-level formatting. In case you
wish to create a file system on the medium, see the commands newfs(8) for
an ufs file system, or newfs_msdos(8) for an MS-DOS (FAT) file system.
Now you can only use it to tar files to it (if I'm not mistaken).
Edwin
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