Re: superformat?
On 26-Sep-2000 Felix Natter wrote:
> John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:
>
>> Michael Soulier writes:
>> > Seems it's still two steps, superformat and then mkfs to make an ext2
>> > floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux
>> > manpage...
>>
>> FAT16 is a pretty good format for floppies (that's what it was designed
>> for). Ext2 isn't.
>
> minix fs is smaller, so it is probably is a better choice than ext2 for
> floppies ? (although you can recover deleted (text-)data from ext2 rather
> easily: see the Ext2-Undeletion-HOWTO; I'm not sure whether that's
> possible
> with minix)
>
> you can also use (v)fat in combination with tar, but that will give
> you error messages like "cannot chmod"..
Unless you mount the floppy with the 'quiet' option.
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