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From: jlw@lznv.ATT.COM (j.l.wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: mounting floppy volume
Message-ID: <1336@lznv.ATT.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 88 21:00:50 GMT
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Using the User Agent to format floppies does a mkfs on the
floppy so it's `mount'able.  As in:

mount /dev/fp021 /mnt

and unmounted by

umount /dev/fp021


When you do a backup or cpio you use the raw device /dev/rfp021.
This creams the superblock and inode table of the floppy
and consequently it must be re-formatted or at least re-mkfs-ed
before it can be mounted again.

Joe Wood
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