formatting floppy
Johnson David
DavidJohnson at Siemens.com
Fri Sep 12 14:05:16 PDT 2003
On Friday 12 September 2003 01:38 pm, Chris wrote:
> What's the difference between fd0 and rfd0 ?
The first is a "block" device, the second is a "character" or "raw"
device. Traditionally, UNIX systems have had both block and character
devices for everything. But FreeBSD-5.x has made everything a block
device, so that rfd0 no longer exists. "The Complete FreeBSD", latest
edition, talks some more on this.
It used to be that your needed to use character devices for anything
that was unformatted or "raw". For example, you could only create a
filesystem on a character device, but could only mount a block device
filesystem. Thus formatting a floppy would require /dev/rfd0, and a lot
of documentation still has this. But formatting /dev/fd0 in FreeBSD-5.x
works.
David
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