Carl, Excellent, thanks!
Worked great, BUT, Puppy doesn't want to look for an ext2 file system on the floppy, apparently, as the gui mounting fails, where it worked fine on all dos formatted disks. But, mounting it via console with just "mount /dev/fd0" (after your previous commands), worked and then the gui sees the floppy as mounted and sees the foo file as well. And the GUI unmount command works fine as well. Interesting and Interesting-er... :) Thanks again, what a great list and great folks. Rich On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Carl Lowenstein <carl.lowenst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Rich <rern...@san.rr.com> wrote: >> How would I format a floppy to a linux file system, ext2 or other? >> GUI or command line is fine. >> >> Is there any advantage to doing so in order to save the preferences of >> a CD only system, over a regular DOS 1.44 format? > > Ext2 file system knows about user/group ID and rwx permissions. DOS doesn't. > > $ sudo /sbin/fdisk /dev/fd0 > set one partition, default type 83 > Note that fdisk will call the partition /dev/fd0p1, but mkfs knows only > /dev/fd0 > $ sudo mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0 > > After this, you can do something like > $ sudo mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > $ cd /mnt > $ touch foo > > $ ls -l > total 13 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 cdl cdl 0 Sep 17 21:21 foo > drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Sep 17 21:19 lost+found > > You might want to get rid of the lost+found directory since it is not > likely that you will be using fsck on the floppy. > $ sudo rm -rf lost+found > > Quick blast from the past, actually trying this to refresh my memory. > > -- > carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego > clowenst...@ucsd.edu > > -- > KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie > -- KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
