Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com> writes:
| I was going about reformatting a floppy disk I use to backup my Exim filters
| and configs and I remembered something:  DOS floppies are limited to 8.3 type
| names.  I believe there are some ways around this which I cannot
| remember, but instead I will keep using ext2 on some floppies like this one.

Do you need to read these floppies on a DOS system? If not don't even
bother formatting them, just use tar on the device itself, e.g.,

tar cvf /dev/fd0 <files>

Gary