I once read that the formatting of a disk is the same as installing a file system on the disk. However, I notice that to format a floppy you have this command: fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 and for installing a file system on a floppy you have this command: /sbin/mke2fs /dev/fd0 And, when these commands are issued, different things appear on the screen indicating that different things are happening. So here are a couple of questions: 1) Formatting must be something different from the installing of a file system, right? 2) If one backs up files to a floppy using tar, should one install the linux file system on the floppy? Thank you. -- Robert G. Scofield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
