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From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hans-Christoph Deeken)
Subject: Re: How to format UNIX floppies under 386BSD
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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 11:36:41 GMT
References: <1992Sep24.142441.17045@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
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In article <1992Sep24.142441.17045@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>, rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett) writes:
> How does one go about formatting a floppy disk to have a UNIX file system
> on it? I assume you must use newfs, but this will only do a high level
> format of the disk, and it would have to be disklabelled. What if the
> disk has _not_ been formatted with and MSDOS format program?
Just use newfs with the appropriate entry from disktab (3in,5in, etc).
That does the trick. No other formatting necessary.
You might want to tune the filesystem parameters for space, since you get
only about 1.2MB free on a 3.5" HD floppy with the supplied disktab entries.
Hannes
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