On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 19:34:15 +0000
David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:

> For floppies I think partition a is left referencing the entire disk.

Floppies can also have an on-disk label, but the kernel will automatically
configure an in-kernel one if it does not exist, based on bios parameters.
Usually, to format a disk with newfs, you have to pass it a disklabel
(-T floppy), which reads that disklabel from /etc/disktab without writing
it to the media.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
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