On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 11:39:48PM -0500, dsb3 wrote: > > > I > >certainly wish > >to use Zip, and eventually Jaz with Linux, and in my extreme desire to > >completely > >seperate myself from the Microsoft dictatorship, I also wish to toss > >the Fat16 > >format these disks have in favor of the far superior ext2. > > Unless my memory fails me, I've formatted a zip disk in ext2 complete with > swap partition and installed linux. I did this at the beginning of the > year when I had access to a zip drive - I still have the disk but alas > don't have a drive so can't verify exactly whats on there... > > Anyway, the point of what I want to say is this. Why bother with ext2 on > a zip disk. You're most likely going to use it to move files between > computer 1 and computer 2. Possibly to take files from computer 1 and > archive them offline someplace. Why do you need ext2?
Long file names, permissions, its far faster (linux much prefers ext2 to any other format). Besides, I like showing the limitations of windows machines "I can read your disk but you can't read mine" - improved security I guess :-) Adrian (who always has more ext2 diskspace than DOS/NTFS diskspave <g>) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux http://www.debian.org The superior Linux distribution
