erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend) (06/11/89)
I've just discovered that once you've formatted a floppy, you can just do mkfs's on it after that. No need to iv. I have the sneaking suspicion that every other unix-pc owner already new this, and is going "So?" :-) Is this a bad/good habit? It certainly cuts down on the format time for a floppy: iv & mkfs: real: 1:12.0 user: 3.0 sys: 1.9 mkfs alone: real: 10.5 user: 0.5 sys: 1.2 -- Grep sed "awk! man cut grep, edit banner false! get help!" Man disable grep, split banner, join prof admin. Grep mount eqn, find path. Grep echo spell. False cat kill admin, man. Grep find banner, make true message. J. Eric Townsend-flatline!erict EastEnders Maillist: eastender@flatline.UUCP
thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (07/22/89)
Confirming Eric's comments about formatting floppies on the UNIXPC ...
What I do to format is:
iv -i /dev/rfp020 /usr/lib/iv/FD10nl
and if a file system is needed:
mkfs /dev/rfp021
One may need, though I've never had the occasion myself, to dismount after
the mkfs by:
dismount -f
Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]