Re: formatting mod
Hi,
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > Well, thank you, this did work. Why doesn´t mke2fs need this?
>
> to encourage you to use a real filesystem instead of that horrible
> msdos thing?
Hmm, :-)
> in general i run superformat --superverify (does double verification
> in addition to low level formatting) when i grab a new floppy out of
> my box of 5+ year old floppies. and run mkfs only from there on
> after.
I should keep that in mind, although I don´t use old floppies to dd
bootfloppies. But I have whole bunch of old floppies inherited from
others. They might need this.
Regards,
Kerstin
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