On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:23:46AM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > Well, thank you, this did work. Why doesn´t mke2fs need this? to encourage you to use a real filesystem instead of that horrible msdos thing? > Which one is better for formatting floppies in DOS format, mkdosfs or > superformat? depends, superformat actually does a low level format of the floppy which is slow and usually unnecessary (unless you want to verify that the floppy is good). superformat is useful even if you want to use ext2 or minix. it just automatically makes a dos filesystem out of some misguided sense of convenience. superformat's job is to do low level formats not create a filesystem. note that superformat actually just calls mformat (part of mtools) to make the filesystem, it does not do itself. mformat is equivilent to mkdosfs (but there not the same program) in general i run superformat --superverify (does double verification in addition to low level formatting) when i grab a new floppy out of my box of 5+ year old floppies. and run mkfs only from there on after. i also run it before dding a boot floppy image. (nothing more annoying then having a floppy boot bork due to fscked floppy) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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