Re: fdformat missing

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

George Bonser wrote:

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

$ superformat /dev/fd0 tracksize=12KB cyl=83 mss
$ mdir a:
 Volume in drive A has no label
 Volume Serial Number is 6F43-9F01
Directory for A:/

No files
                        2 021 376 bytes free
$ mount /A
$ df /dev/fd0
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/fd0                1974       0     1974      0%   /A

$ umount /A
$ mke2fs -m 0 -i 32768 /dev/fd0
$ mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /A
$ df /dev/fd0
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/fd0                1979      13     1966      1%   /A

Pretty small difference.  Of cource, I am allowed only 53 files
on the disk with this number of bytes per inode.

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