Duncan <[email protected]> skribis: > (FWIW, I format everything reiserfs or ext2/3/4, here, and haven't used > fat, at least not to the degree I'd need to fsck or mkfs it, if someone > not on Linux needs a file, it goes by net and they download it to their > own fs, since my Mandrake days at least (I switched to Gentoo in early > 2004), so was perhaps one of the few here that did /not/ know what > package those utilities were in.)
Depending on what the DOS fs stuff is for, sys-fs/ntfs3g might be a better option, anyway, though I have a vfat partition from before I discovered ntfs3g, and would keep dosfstools (and the kernel support) and/or mtools around anyway, for working with those very occasional floppies.
