Re: fdformat missing

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 MallarJ@aol.com wrote:

> I would think the real answer depends on your use of the floppies.  If you're 
> going to use them only for Linux - no reason to get the DOS tools involved, 
> format them with a Linux filesystem.  If you're going to use them on DOS/Win 
> machines as well as your Linux box - then format them for DOS and set Linux 
> up to mount them using DOS filesystems (via your fstab).

The problems is that mke2fs does not do a low-level format of the disk. If
you are going to make the disks e2fs, do an msdos format first, then make
a linux filesystem on it.

Also, e2fs is wasteful of disk space. You will have more available disk
space in an msdos floppy format.