Jonathan Schleifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > which is the right or preferred way to do so (since there are, as > > I pointed out several possible ways). > > I already answered that before: > Jonathan Schleifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Floppies usually don't have a partition table nor a disk label, so > > just newfs fd0c and you should be fine.
Well yes, it is working. But still: The floppy does have a disklabel which does only have partition "c" by default. And it seems strange to me, that I should create a filesystem on a partition "c". And even stranger, this file system can afterwards be accessed through partition "a" which does not even show up in the disklabel. What puzzles me even more is the fact, that in the boot "Absolute OpenBSD" by Michael W. Lucas, it is said on page 310, that "FFS file systems need a valid partition table on every disk" and then the author desribes the following steps: # disklabel -w /dev/rfd0c floppy # newfs /dev/rfd0c which yields a disklabel with overlapping partitions, and "disklabel -E fd0" tells me that the disklabel has an error an offers me to disable one partition or the other... These are the reasons why I was not completely content with your short an simple answer. (I do favor simple solutions, of course!) > You also heart this from others. So it's not that your main question got > lost ;). Not on your side anyway... ;-) Cheers, Michael
