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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Getting > 1.2MB from floppy
Date: 17 Jun 1997 09:06:36 GMT
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User Dave Sys Admin <dave@pc16.mpn.cp.philips.com> wrote:

> 	newfs rfd0 floppy
> 
> and this goes fine too, however when I mount the disk and do a df, it
> only shows 1283 1K blocks.

RTFM newfs(8).  In particular, the -i option is what you're looking
for.  Something like

	newfs -l1 -i65536 -m0 /dev/rfd0

is what i'm using (on FreeBSD).

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j