Re: superformat?
John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:
> Michael Soulier writes:
> > Seems it's still two steps, superformat and then mkfs to make an ext2
> > floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux
> > manpage...
>
> FAT16 is a pretty good format for floppies (that's what it was designed
> for). Ext2 isn't.
minix fs is smaller, so it is probably is a better choice than ext2 for
floppies ? (although you can recover deleted (text-)data from ext2 rather
easily: see the Ext2-Undeletion-HOWTO; I'm not sure whether that's possible
with minix)
you can also use (v)fat in combination with tar, but that will give
you error messages like "cannot chmod"..
--
Felix Natter
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