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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!goanna!escargot!minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU!rcskb From: rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How to format UNIX floppies under 386BSD Message-ID: <rcskb.717489070@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> Date: 26 Sep 92 06:31:10 GMT References: <1992Sep24.142441.17045@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1992Sep24.113641.36338@news.th-darmstadt.de> <19usrhINN222@disaster.Germany.EU.net> Organization: RMIT Computer Centre Lines: 25 NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes: >However, do yourself a favour and cut down on cylinder groups and tune the >bytes-per-inode to your needs. Does someone want to explain how to do this? Do you need to change the disktab entry (if so, what about posting one :-), or is it some cryptic set of command line options to newfs? BTW, if I finally get mtools working on 386BSD, it has an mformat command to format an MSDOS floppy right? So you could write a shell script that would use mformat to low-level format the floppy, then newfs to put a file system on it. Or is mformat only a high level format program (like the MSDOS 5.0 format without /U?)... Thanks, +------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | Kendall Bennett | Internet: | | RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre | kjb@citri.edu.au | | CITRI Building, 723 Swanston Street | rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au | | Carlton Victoria 3053 AUSTRALIA. | | +------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ | CoSysop (Bossman), PC Connection Australia: +61 3 688 0909 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+