UNIX filesystems on Sun SPARCstation floppy disks

[Ken Hardy]

In article <NSXA7K9 at xds13.ferranti.com>, peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <1991Apr18.174329 at quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov> karl at quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl Anderson) writes:
> > is, can 3-1/2" floppy disks with UNIX filesystems on them be mounted,
> 
> I'd like to know this, too. Information on how to format and mkfs them
> would be nice as well... I didn't even get that far. We had a MOTIF

This is what I use on a SparcStation 1 with SunOS 4.0.3.  Works like
a champ:

        fdformat
        /etc/mkfs /dev/rfd0c 2880 18 2 8192 1024 16 10 5 2048 t 0 -1
        /etc/mount /dev/fd0c /floppy


"df /floppy" yields:

    Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
    /dev/fd0c               1303       9    1163     1%    /floppy

I just did this now on a new diskette, so I know it works (here, at least).
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