[PLUG] fdformat: what filesystem?z
Kyle Accardi
sandbox at pacifier.com
Fri Apr 4 23:43:02 UTC 2003
Russell Senior wrote:
>>>>>>"Kyle" == Kyle Accardi <sandbox at pacifier.com> writes:
>>>>>
>
> Kyle> I always just use mtools and leave the floppy with in its
> Kyle> "native" msdos format. ext2 just isn't suited for removable
> Kyle> media, IMHO. Maybe it's better now, but I used to get kernel
> Kyle> panics when ejecting a mounted ext2 floppy.
>
> There is always the extravagent step of umount'ing them before
> ejection, of course.
I've heard of that but it seems to go against nature. I came in after
washing machines & disk packs and always thought the folks had it right when
they invented the eject button. Plus why waste the time reformatting a
floppy disk to ext2? I'll have to look into the filename truncation, don't
remember it being a problem, but it's been awhile since I've needed a floppy
for anything.
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Kyle Accardi
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