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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!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: fdformat & mount simple question Date: 10 Jan 1996 21:55:29 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4d1ckh$nqi@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <4d04qn$37t@gol2.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> writes: >I want to backup /etc using floppies and dump. First I formatted a 3.5" >disk using the command >fdformat -f 1440 >and it seemed to format fie. I think I used mtools to format a disk, with a msdos file system last time. I've got a feeling fdformat formats the disk without putting a filesystem on it. >But afterwards I couldn't figure out the correct way of mounting the >floppy, so I couldn't run dump. I tried >mount /dev/fd0 /floppy >but got an "incorrect superblock error". You should probably say mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy David.