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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: More Newbie 2.1 Qs...
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:12:33 GMT
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Perry Grieb (c23peg@mail.delcoelect.com) wrote:

: (2) What type of filesystem does fdformat generate?  It's not FAT.
: It does not seem to be a native FreeBSD filesystem.  The man page
: doesn't give a clue.

low level format of the disk - only sectors and tracks and so on - you
have to make a filesystem on it seperatly using mformat from the
mtools (look at the packages) or newfs (look at the top of /etc/disktab)

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