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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: (no subject)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 19:05:20 GMT
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Doug Lerner (doug@gol.com) wrote:
: 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.
this only low level formats your disk - you also have to bring a
filesystem on it - either a msdos fs using the mtools (mformat) from
the ports or a unix fs usinf newfs - but there you need some special
options to get more than half of the disk usable for data - joerg -
it's your part - what were the options ?
t
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