Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> Hey all. I have question about the floppy drive. Why is it that I can read
> floppy disks formatted for DOS/Windows but I cannot read and Linux disks,
> not even my Linux boot disk?
>
> -- Glenn Johnson
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> Registered Linux user #175132
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Because linux (by default) sets up floppy drives for the 'vfat'
filesystem.
If you want to read/write 'ext2' file system, you need to mount the
drive explicitly.
Take a look at 'man mount' and 'man fstab' - (without the quotes) from
your terminal prompt.
cheers
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