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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!news From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How to format UNIX floppies under 386BSD Date: 28 Sep 1992 13:07:24 -0500 Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 16 Message-ID: <1a7hksINNhfe@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> References: <1992Sep24.142441.17045@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1992Sep24.113641.36338@news.th-darmstadt.de> <19usrhINN222@disaster.Germany.EU.net> <rcskb.717489070@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> NNTP-Posting-Host: maverick.ksu.ksu.edu In <rcskb.717489070@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett) writes: >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?)... All mformat does is write the MS-DOS filesystem (ha ha) info to track 0. Stuff like the FAT and the root directory for the disk. It does not low level format the disk. BTW, this is a really quick way to reformat a disk for MS-DOS that's been used for a tar file or some such. MS-DOS always want's to reformat the entire disk in these cases. mformat will do the job in about 5-10 seconds. ++Brett;