on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 05:58:41PM +0100, David Wright (d.wright@open.ac.uk) wrote: > Quoting Robert Voigt (f1k@gmx.de): > > I find the truncation of long filenames on MSDOS floppies really > > annoying. But I haven't found a way to format a floppy in ext2. Fdformat > > is obsolete, and superformat seems to be unable to format ext2. Is there > > something that can do it? > > While this thread has probably given you all the information you need > for formatting floppies as ext2, I would recommend that you don't. > As someone pointed out, vfat will give you long filenames (but not > filenames that only differ in case; you didn't want that?). > > Remember that floppies don't lock themselves in like many removable > media: the first time you eject a mounted floppy, you'll be left > with the problem of unmounting it cleanly. Once a DOS floppy has > finished writing, it doesn't matter if you forget all about it and > eject it some days later - you can umount it after the event. Use the sync option -- all write will be done synchroneously rather than buffered. Slower, but no agony of recovery on premeture eja...eji...ejection. Yeah, that's the ticket. Essentially the same picture as you get accessing a floppy under Legacy MS Windows. There are also the MSDOS utilities which work on *unmounted* media, also in a synchronous fashion. Though I hardly ever use these. And, yes, there are advantages to using an archive format (zip, tar, afio, cpio). -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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