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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: problem with wasted sectors on floppies Date: 8 Jan 1996 23:20:23 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4cs8rn$jst@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4crc3j$2i2m@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 schweikh@itosun.ito.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt) writes: > > root:~# newfs fd0 fd0.1440 > disk doesn't have an MBR > Warning: Block size and bytes per inode restrict cylinders per group to 5. > Warning: 1216 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated > /dev/rfd0: 2880 sectors in 1 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors > 1.4MB in 1 cyl groups (5 c/g, 10.00MB/g, 4448 i/g) > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > 32, > root:~# mount -t ufs /dev/fd0 /a > root:~# df /a > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/fd0 855 0 786 0% /a > I expected about 1440 1K-blocks to be available. The missing +600k > correspond to the 1216 unallocated sectors, I think. > Is there a way to have a bigger fs on a floppy? Yes, by reading the man page for newfs(8). :-) You're simply wasting too much space in useless i-nodes. Try something like newfs -l1 -i65536 -t0 -u0 fd0 RTFM for the options. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)