Hello,
Nathan E Norman:
The real reason FAT filesystems are good for floppies is because it
wastes the least space, while providing a decent medium for transferring
data.
But if you're just going to put one tar.gz file on it, do you need a
filesystem at all?
Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, e2fs is wasteful of disk space. You will have more available
disk
space in an msdos floppy format.
That is exactly why I use the minix filesystem. Maybe that's the
compromise you need!!
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Phillip Deackes
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Debian Linux v.2.1
On 08-Apr-99 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
polly wogged,
The real reason FAT filesystems are good for floppies is because it
wastes the least space, while providing a decent medium for transferring
data. If you really need the features ext2 provides then by all means
use mke2fs.
have you tried mke2fs /dev/fdX?
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote:
On 08-Apr-99 Pollywog wrote:
On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote:
Try superformat
Is that for formatting Linux floppies too?
It appears that it is for DOS floppies and I want to get ext2 floppies.
--
On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Egon Schmid wrote:
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux filesystem.
For what reason?
I don't like M$
I mean a technical reason.
I was looking for a technical reason too; for changing my habit of
Excuse my ignorance (I've only ever used dos 6.20 with 1.44M disks),
but...
Why is ext2 wasteful of disk space?
I usually format to 1920k
(83 tracks doesn't always work for me, so I don't use 1992k).
The larger block size and reserved space can be looked after with
mke2fs -b 512 -m 0 ..., and
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Bruce Sass wrote:
Why is ext2 wasteful of disk space?
Backup superblock, inode table, space reserved for root, etc.
Re: superblocks, we'll just have to wait until -s, sparse superblocks
works properly (2.2.x kernels?).
The
Subject: fdformat missing
Date: Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 06:09:59PM -
In reply to:Pollywog
Quoting Pollywog([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I am missing fdformat. Which package contains it?
From your many questions, I assume you are really interested in
knowing a lot about your system
George Bonser wrote:
Also, e2fs is wasteful of disk space. You will have more available disk
space in an msdos floppy format.
The best thing to do is to use the minix filesystem. This will use less
space than ext2, while while allowing you to use unix style permissions and
owners.
--
see shy
George Bonser wrote:
Also, e2fs is wasteful of disk space. You will have more available disk
space in an msdos floppy format.
$ superformat /dev/fd0 tracksize=12KB cyl=83 mss
$ mdir a:
Volume in drive A has no label
Volume Serial Number is 6F43-9F01
Directory for A:/
No files
I am missing fdformat. Which package contains it?
thanks
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Andrew
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I am missing fdformat. Which package contains it?
superformat in fdutils, i believe
thanks
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Andrew
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OK
On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote:
Try superformat
Is that for formatting Linux floppies too?
--
Andrew
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On 08-Apr-99 Pollywog wrote:
On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote:
Try superformat
Is that for formatting Linux floppies too?
It appears that it is for DOS floppies and I want to get ext2 floppies.
--
Andrew
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[ICQ#175285]
On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote:
What do you mean Linux floppies? You should always use msdos format for
floppies on Linux.
Oh?? Is there a reason for that? I have never done it that way.
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Andrew amateur
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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote:
What do you mean Linux floppies? You should always use msdos format for
floppies on Linux.
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux filesystem.
-Egon
On 08-Apr-99 Egon Schmid wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote:
What do you mean Linux floppies? You should always use msdos format for
floppies on Linux.
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux filesystem.
-Egon
oh my. Looks like I have stirred up the
In a message dated 4/8/99 2:51:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What do you mean Linux floppies? You should always use msdos format for
floppies on Linux.
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux filesystem.
-Egon
oh my. Looks like I
On 08-Apr-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 4/8/99 2:51:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What do you mean Linux floppies? You should always use msdos format for
floppies on Linux.
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 4/8/99 2:51:10 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What do you mean Linux floppies? You should always use msdos format for
floppies on Linux.
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Egon Schmid wrote:
No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux filesystem.
For what reason?
I don't like M$
-Egon
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Egon Schmid wrote:
[ snip ]
: This is a Linux ML and I think the default answer should be a Linux
: filesystem. Do all people on the ML read floppies on Windows 95/98/2000 or
: NT? What about installing vmware (www.vmware.com) and use M$ together
: with Debian.
Well,
In a message dated 4/8/99 3:17:57 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is a Linux ML and I think the default answer should be a Linux
filesystem. Do all people on the ML read floppies on Windows 95/98/2000 or
NT? What about installing vmware (www.vmware.com) and use M$
On 08-Apr-99 Nathan E Norman wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Egon Schmid wrote:
[ snip ]
: This is a Linux ML and I think the default answer should be a Linux
: filesystem. Do all people on the ML read floppies on Windows 95/98/2000
or
: NT? What about installing vmware (www.vmware.com)
On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would think the real answer depends on your use of the floppies. If
you're
going to use them only for Linux - no reason to get the DOS tools involved,
format them with a Linux filesystem. If you're going to
polly wogged,
The real reason FAT filesystems are good for floppies is because it
wastes the least space, while providing a decent medium for transferring
data. If you really need the features ext2 provides then by all means
use mke2fs.
Just the answer I was seeking. So it will be
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