Table of Contents PC-style floppy disks work mostly like other
disk devices like hard disks, except that you need to low-level
format them first. To use an common 1440 KB floppy in the first
floppy drive, first (as root) format it: #fdformat -f /dev/rfd0a
Then create a single partition on the disk using disklabel(8):
#disklabel -rw /dev/rfd0a floppy3 Creating a small filesystem
optimized for space: #newfs -m 0 -o space -i 16384 -c 80
/dev/rfd0a Now the floppy disk can be mounted like any other
disk. Or if you already have a floppy disk with an MS-DOS
filesystem on it that you just want to access from NetBSD, you
can just do something like this: #mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /mnt
However, rather than using floppies like normal (bigger) disks,
it is often more convenient to bypass the filesystem altogether
and just splat an archive of files directly to the raw device.
E.g.: #tar cvfz /dev/rfd0a file1 file2 ... A variation of this
can also be done with MS-DOS floppies using sysutils/mtools
package which has the bene