Floppy formatting/available disk space
Jeffrey L Bromberger
jeffrey at ccnysci.UUCP
Thu Nov 10 02:56:58 AEST 1988
In the iv library (/usr/lib/iv) there are 6 different formats for a
floppy disk. The "Format Floppy" window uses the FDnl (Floppy Disk-no
loader) format, and then runs a mkfs to give a filestore with just
over 600 blocks and 100 inodes. Would there be any advantage to using
the FD10nl (10 sectors per track) format instead of the standard 8
sector format? How would one change the parameters to mkfs to use the
larger number of blocks?
I've also noted that cpio will work on a disk that has been formatted,
but has no filestore written (the disk has been iv'd but not mkfs'd).
Would the amount of data stored on a disk (by cpio) increase by using
the 10 sector format?
As an aside, what exactly does the "loader" (either silent or verbose)
do? Is there a simple example of when one would use this loader?
Thanks for any info you can give me.
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Jeffrey L. Bromberger
System Operator---City College of New York---Science Computing Facility
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