Re: fdformat missing
Excuse my ignorance (I've only ever used dos 6.20 with 1.44M disks),
but...
Why is ext2 wasteful of disk space?
I usually format to 1920k
(83 tracks doesn't always work for me, so I don't use 1992k).
The larger block size and reserved space can be looked after with
"mke2fs -b 512 -m 0 ...", and if it makes much difference you can even
change the bytes per inode ratio with the "-i" option.
I find the "lost+found" feature to be worth losing 12k over
(a good technical reason to use ext2?).
- Bruce
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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote:
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> On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Egon Schmid wrote:
> >
> >> > > No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux filesystem.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > For what reason?
> >>
> >> I don't like M$
> >
> > I mean a technical reason.
>
> I was looking for a technical reason too; for changing my habit of formatting
> floppies for ext2. Now I have one.
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later,
Bruce
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