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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How to format UNIX floppies under 386BSD Date: 25 Sep 1992 11:23:29 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: <19usrhINN222@disaster.Germany.EU.net> References: <1992Sep24.142441.17045@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1992Sep24.113641.36338@news.th-darmstadt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net In article <1992Sep24.113641.36338@news.th-darmstadt.de>, deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hans-Christoph Deeken) writes: > 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. NACK 386bsd is not up to low-level formatting floppies, i.e. makeing the magnetic particles on the floppy cuddle together to make blocks and tracks. However, putting a filesystem on a low-level-formatted floppy is no probelm and the abovementioned procedure should work. However, do yourself a favour and cut down on cylinder groups and tune the bytes-per-inode to your needs. -Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV