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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!news.alt.net!nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.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: newfs on floppy problem Date: 17 Jan 1996 23:09:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 39 Message-ID: <4djvig$d6u@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4di314$lcl@news.fsu.edu> 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 astuy@bio.fsu.edu (Alexander Stuy) writes: > Can somebody clue me in on where I am going wrong? I am only getting about > half of the floppy's capacity as well as the following warnings. You're wasting too much space in useless i-nodes. This is the comment on top of a fairly recent /etc/disktab: # # Floppy formats: # # To make a filesystem on a floppy: # fdformat [-f <size>] fd<drive>[.<size>] # disklabel -B -r -w fd<drive>[.<size>] fd<size> # newfs <opts> fd<drive>[.<size>] # # with <opts>: # -t 2 - two heads # -u 9|15|18 - sectors per track # (using the default value of 1/4096 is not much useful for floppies) # -l 1 - interleave 1 (for most floppies) # -i 65536 - bytes of data per i-node # (the default -i value will render you with a floppy wasting way # too much space in i-node areas) # It's mostly the -i option to newfs that will make you happy. (Note that you could abbreviate the above -t and -u settings by -t0 -u0.) Btw., you don't really want to create a ufs floppy. Almost nobody does it. -- 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. ;-)