how to format a floppy in ext2

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Subject: how to format a floppy in ext2
From: Robert Voigt <f1k@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 17:44:29 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 3AC4A9DD.4000205@gmx.de>

I find the truncation of long filenames on MSDOS floppies reallyannoying. But I haven't found a way to format a floppy in ext2. Fdformatis obsolete, and superformat seems to be unable to format ext2. Is theresomething that can do it?

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