RE: how to format a floppy in ext2

["Holp, John Mr." <holpj@nwc.navy.mil>]

I just did a cat on /etc/fstab to see how my Debina 2.2.17 machine "sees"
the floppy.

/dev/fd0	/floppy	auto	defaults,user,noauto	0	0

is the entry in fstab.

I then popped in a blank floppy and did;

mke2fs /dev/fd0 /floppy

Then did;

mount /floppy

Then;

cd /floppy

Then;

ls -lai

And there is the formatted blank floppy with only the "." and ".." entries

Just for the heck of it I did;

cp /etc/fstab .

And then another ls -lai

And there is a copy of /etc/fstab on the floppy now

So it looks to me like everything is copasetic!  What is the problem?

John


-----Original Message-----
From: Carel Fellinger [mailto:cfelling@iae.nl]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:08 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: how to format a floppy in ext2


On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:03:03AM -0500, Darryl N . Grant wrote:
> Whenever I format a floppy, I use mke2fs and then tell the mount point.
> 
> 	Example: mke2fs /mnt


Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but you shouldn't format mounted
drives.  You can only mount when there *is* a filesytem, and creating
a filesystem after the mount might severely derange kernel buffers.

-- 
groetjes, carel


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