UNIX filesystems on Sun SPARCstation floppy disks (solved, sort of)

[Karl Anderson]

In article <1991Apr18.174329 at quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov>
karl at quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov (that's me) 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,
|> 

Well, today I had *no* trouble doing just what I was unable to do last
week.  Here's what I did, using a name-brand high-density 3-1/2"
diskette:

root at tundra# fdformat fd0
Press return to start formatting floppy. 
........................................................................
.........
root at tundra# 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,
root at tundra# fsck /dev/rfd0c
** /dev/rfd0c
** Last Mounted on 
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
2 files, 9 used, 1254 free (14 frags, 155 blocks, 1.1% fragmentation)
root at tundra# mount /dev/fd0c /floppy
root at tundra# cd /floppy
root at tundra# ls
lost+found/

Huh!  Ever have a car that acted up, but not when you took it in to the
shop?
Thanks to everyone who responded, although no one had the solution.  How
could
they - it wasn't supposed to happen!
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