on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:00:23PM +0200, Martin Würtele (martin@wuertele.cc) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 05:44:29PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote: > > I find the truncation of long filenames on MSDOS floppies really > > annoying. But I haven't found a way to format a floppy in ext2. Fdformat > > is obsolete, and superformat seems to be unable to format ext2. Is there > > something that can do it? > > how about > mke2fs /dev/fd0 While you *can* create an ext2fs filesystem on a floppy disk, my understanding is that there are alternatives which are more efficient, in particular the minix filesystem. You can also mount a DOS formatted floppy as vfat if all you're interested in is long filenames. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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