Ok, I made a parition on floppy, now do I access it?
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/fd0: 2 heads, 18 sectors, 80 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 36 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/fd0p1 1 80 1431 83 Linux
I did
mknod /dev/fd0p1 b 2 1
However, neither 'mkswap' nor 'mke2fs' seems to work on '/dev/fd0p1'
(why I try to do this? I'm trying empirically verify if 'mkswap' will
check for partion type (ie is this '82') before mkswap-ing it. IMHO, it
shouldl.... )
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Adam
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