Michael Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
That's normal. c is always the whole disk, and because the disk has no disklabel and no partition table, it's also a. It's the same like with CD-ROMs. You can access them also as cd0a and cd0c. > 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 I don't see any sense for a partition table and / or disklabel on a floppy disk. -- Jonathan
