Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!chx400!bernina!prl From: prl@iis.ethz.ch (Peter Lamb) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: UNIX filesystems on Sun SPARCstation floppy disks Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 06:54:05 GMT References: <1991Apr18.174329@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH Lines: 82 Nntp-Posting-Host: etzj-gw peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1991Apr18.174329@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov> karl@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl Anderson) writes: >> I know this has been discussed, but I missed it. What I want to know >> is, can 3-1/2" floppy disks with UNIX filesystems on them be mounted, Yes indeed. I have even been able to mount floppies made on a Sony NeWS on my SS1+ (the U*nix file systems are generally not designed for portability across architectures; you shouldn't expect this to always work, but sometimes it does). >I'd like to know this, too. Information on how to format and mkfs them >would be nice as well... fdformat -l Press return to start formatting floppy. ................................................................................ /etc/newfs /dev/rfd0c /dev/rfd0c: 1440 sectors in 80 cylinders of 2 tracks, 9 sectors 0.7MB in 5 cyl groups (16 c/g, 0.15MB/g, 64 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32, 336, 608, 912, 1184, su Password: barossa[prl]# mount /dev/fd0c /mnt barossa[prl]# ls -la /mnt total 10 drwxr-xr-x 3 root 512 Apr 24 08:55 ./ drwxr-sr-x 11 root 512 Apr 24 08:34 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root 8192 Apr 24 08:55 lost+found/ barossa[prl]# umount /mnt barossa[prl]# This is for a so-called 1MB floppy (720k after formatting) or DSDD. For a `2MB' floppy (1440k after formatting) or DSHD, omit the -l option. This leaves you with: df /dev/rfd0c Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/rfd0c 583 9 515 2% Since space is a premium on a floppy, you may want to add some mkfs options to the newfs: /etc/newfs -o space -m 0 /dev/rfd0c # optimise disk layout for space, allow # use of whole disk Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/rfd0c 583 9 574 2% If you can live with a bot more of a performance drop, add -t 10 (lie about the head arrangement; this makes the disk a single cylinder group, and reduces overhead. For a DSHD disk, use -t 20) Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/rfd0c 647 9 638 1% I normally use floppies for saving software source in compressed tar files. This means that there aren't many files, and so I don't need many inodes, so add: -i 8192 (tell newfs you have a larger-than-average file size) Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/rfd0c 671 9 662 1% So, now you have 662 of the 720k available for use (with default parameters 515k). The security of permitting random users to mount filesystems that they can tweak themselves is not addressed here ;-) -- Peter Lamb uucp: uunet!mcsun!ethz!prl eunet: prl@iis.ethz.ch Tel: +411 256 5241 Integrated Systems Laboratory ETH-Zentrum, 8092 Zurich