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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!DIALix!melbourne.DIALix.oz.au!seeware!mark From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Subject: Re: fdformat & mount simple question Organization: Private FreeBSD site Message-ID: <DL3zAw.74u@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> References: <4d04qn$37t@gol2.gol.com> <4d0s3m$qb9@nntp5.u.washington.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 07:25:43 GMT Lines: 43 kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote: : Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com> wrote in article <4d04qn$37t@gol2.gol.com> : : > : >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. : > : >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". : > : >Should I format and/or mount a floppy differently? : > : > : Read the top of /etc/disktab. It tells you what to do. You : need to disklabel and newfs the formatted disk. Not necessarily, I seem to remember that I have dumped to the raw floppy device before, in that case you don't need to make a filesystem and you don't need to mount the floppy, ie fdformat -f 1440 ### Note that there is 1720 mode which also worked for me dump 0uf /dev/rfd0.1440 Dump will prompt you to change floppies whenever needed. /mark -- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au| | Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se | | Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | |