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From: tom@tarush.chattanooga.net (Tom Rush)
Subject: Re: mount floppy
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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 14:10:58 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: If you care to create an ufs floppy (native BSD file system), use
: disklabel -r -w -B fd0 fd1440
: newfs -t2 -u18 -l1 -i65536 /dev/rfd0a
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Thanks for explaining this. The instructions for this process in
/etc/disktab leave out the arguments to newfs. If you do it that way,
you get a floppy with about half the space wasted. (Maybe someone
should add this to /etc/disktab...)
This brings up another question: How do you decide when to use args
for newfs?
For the floppy, it seems essential. But I noticed that when I installed
the system, the default value of 4096 sectors/cylinder was used instead
of the actual value derived from the disk geometry. Is this the best
way to do it, or should you tell newfs the actual geometry (using the
menu option that allows you to do this)?
--
Tom Rush
tom@tarush.chattanooga.net