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From: guineau@wjg.enet.dec.com (W. John Guineau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: AmigaMINIX File Systems and other questions
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Date: 10 Dec 90 17:37:34 GMT
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Question 1:

I've been trying to create some blank filesystems under Amiga MINIX.

I format floppies using MSH (also tried a real PC) and then type 

	mkfs /dev/dd0 360

and/or	mkfs /dev/dd0 720

Both commands succeed, but then a mount /dev/dd0 /user will return
an error of "not a valid file system"

What am I doing wrong?  So far I've had to diskcopy an exisiting fs (like /usr
disk) and then delete all files on it. I now have an "empty" file system disk 
that I diskcopy when I need a new disk. There must be a better way!



Question 2:

what's the difference between /dev/dd0 and /dev/fd0 ? I couldn't find 
reference to /dev/dd0 in the Amiga section of the manual.



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