Re: fdformat missing

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote:
> 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.
> 

That is a good enough reason for me to change my habits.

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Andrew

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