UNIX filesystems on Sun SPARCstation floppy disks

[Richard Tobin]

In article <1991Apr18.174329 at quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov> karl at 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,
>and if so, how?

Works fine for me (I assume you meant "newfs /dev/rfd0c" otherwise it
says "newfs: /dev/fd0c: not a raw disk device".

I'm using SunOS 4.1, but it used to work under 4.0 too.

Here's exactly what I did:


  gairsay# fdformat /dev/rfd0c
  Press return to start formatting floppy.
  ................................................................................
  gairsay# newfs /dev/fd0c
  newfs: /dev/fd0c: not a raw disk device
  gairsay# newfs /dev/rfd0c
  /dev/rfd0c:     2880 sectors in 80 cylinders of 2 tracks, 18 sectors
          1.5MB in 5 cyl groups (16 c/g, 0.29MB/g, 128 i/g)
  super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
   32, 640, 1184, 1792, 2336,
  gairsay# mount /dev/fd0c /mnt
  gairsay# ls /mnt
  lost+found/
  gairsay#

By the way, I strongly advise you not to try paging from it :-)
  
-- Richard

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