Joaquin Henriquez Alzola wrote:
Hi people,
Which one is the file system type of a floppy disk(3,5)?
BR
Joaquin
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hello,
this is a quote from the System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems (Solaris 9 9/04)
"Diskette Hardware Considerations
Keep the following in mind when formatting diskettes:
* For information on diskette names, see Table 2–1.
* Diskettes that are not named (that is, they have no “label”) are assigned the default name of noname.
A Solaris system can format diskettes for use on both Solaris and DOS systems. However, the hardware platform imposes some limitations. These limitations are summarized in the following table.
SPARC based systems: UFS,MS-DOS or NEC-DOS (PCFS), UDFS x86 based systems: UFS, MS-DOS or NEC-DOS (PCFS), UDFS
Diskettes formatted for UFS are restricted to the hardware platform on which they were formatted. In other words, a UFS diskette formatted on a SPARC based platform cannot be used for UFS on an x86 platform, nor can a diskette formatted on an x86 platform be used on a SPARC based platform. This is because the SPARC and x86 UFS formats are different. SPARC uses little-endian bit coding, x86 uses big-endian.
A complete format for SunOS file systems consists of the basic “bit” formatting plus the structure to support a SunOS file system. A complete format for a DOS file system consists of the basic “bit” formatting plus the structure to support either an MS-DOS or an NEC-DOS file system. The procedures required to prepare a diskette for each type of file system are different. Therefore, before you format a diskette, consider which procedure to follow. For more information, see Formatting Removable Media (Task Map)."
greetings,
Stoyan Angelov
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