More ZIP Problems

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Tue Mar 16 18:55:47 UTC 2010


On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:38:42 -0500, Programmer In Training <pit at joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote:
> On 03/16/10 10:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Just checking: you did do a newfs(8), right?
> 
> That did it! Thanks (: Never had to run that command before when
> formatting a disk (granted all I've ever formatted was a floppy disk on
> a Linux box).

Then you haven't formatted a disk. :-)

The newfs program initiates a file system, which is commonly
called formatting.

For floppy disks, see "man fdformat".



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