Formatting a floppy diskette, creating UFS filesystem & mounting it.

[suryanamaskar]

Hello

I was writing a script to format a 3.5'', 1.44 mb floppy disk on a solaris 2.7 box. This is what i do.
fdforat -v -U -f
This goes through smoothly.
Next I want to create UFS fs on the floppy. This is what I do.
newfs -v /vol/dev/aliases/floppy0
My volume management is running by default. Running the above command gives me problems at times and at other times it goes through.
Next I want to mount the floppy.
mount /vol/dev/diskette0/unnamed_floppy /mnt/floppy
is also behaving unreliably. At times I am able to mount the floppy and at other times i get an error which says either of the files: /vol/dev/diskette0/unnamed_floppy or /mnt/floppy does not exist.

Any help.

Please see that if i shut down volume management and do the following:-
fdformat -v -U -f
newfs -v /dev/rfd0
mount /dev/diskette0 /mnt/floppy
Everything works smoothly.
But there is a slight glitch here too, if I try to open the floppy thus created through a file manager it asks me if I want to format the floppy. To get around this, i had to eject the floppy, then run volcheck and everything worked fine from there on.

Please tell me how to format, create filesystem and mount a floppy through a script while volume management is running.
Alternatively i cannot alwasy mount a floppy which is Solaris formatted and has UFS from the command line.

Thanks

 

[jad]

1) why do you need ufs formatted floppies ... will dos disks not do?

2) why do you want floppies, are you able to connect to a network? can you access any other kind of device anywhere?

Floppies are the most temperamental thing in solaris ... the only time my machine goes down is if i stick a non-dos/non-ufs floppy in the floppy drive ... i then get a really nasty loop trying to format the disk in cde, and sometimes it kills the desktop ...