mounting floppy volume

j.l.wood jlw at lznv.ATT.COM
Wed Mar 23 07:00:50 AEST 1988


Using the User Agent to format floppies does a mkfs on the
floppy so it's `mount'able.  As in:

mount /dev/fp021 /mnt

and unmounted by

umount /dev/fp021


When you do a backup or cpio you use the raw device /dev/rfp021.
This creams the superblock and inode table of the floppy
and consequently it must be re-formatted or at least re-mkfs-ed
before it can be mounted again.

Joe Wood
lznv!jlw



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