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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 22:58:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4d6p2n$h7c@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4d0gk9$2me@kocrsv08.delcoelect.com> <30F4D177.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> 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 "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: > To BSD format it, do: > > disklabel -r -w fd0 floppy3 > newfs /dev/fd0a Don't do this. :-) You'll waste half of the floppy in useless i-nodes. Use something like newfs -t0 -u0 -l1 -i65536 /dev/rfd0a instead. (RTFM newfs(8) for the meaning of 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. ;-)