Hi All,
My question was:
> I am installing Tripwire on our Firewall machine, and want to store
> the executable and database on a hardware write protected disk. I want
> to use the floppy that is included on the Alphastation 200 4/166.
>
> Is it possible to format the floppy for ufs? If so, how do you do it?
> I read the man page on fd(7), and this mounts the floppy, but df
> shows:
>
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/fd 0 0 0 100% /mnt
>
> Avail 0 is not useful by any means :-)
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
It seems like I did not look hard enough, man -k floppy found fd(7), but
did not find fddisk (why??)
The answer is:
/sbin/fddisk -fmt -f /dev/rfd0c
newfs /dev/rfd0c rx23
mount /dev/fd0c /mnt
Many thanks to Roberto Romani (Hi pal!) <romani_at_stl.dec.com>
--Garry.
Received on Mon Jan 15 1996 - 07:49:26 NZDT