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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: More Newbie 2.1 Qs...
Date: 12 Jan 1996 22:57:03 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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References: <4d0gk9$2me@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com> <DKzC0x.HE@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen) writes:
> 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)
For consistency reasons, FreeBSD-current does also have an official
mkdosfs(8) now.
--
cheers, J"org
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