Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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