On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> Michael Soulier writes:
> > Seems it's still two steps, superformat and then mkfs to make an ext2
> > floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux
> > manpage...
>
> FAT16 is a pretty good format for floppies (that's what it was designed
> for). Ext2 isn't.
Yeah, I suppose. Out of curiousity, what format is used on zip
drives running under Linux? I've never used one. Do they have their own
format, ala CDROMS with iso9660?
I guess floppies aren't all that important in a world of the
internet, but they're still valuable in the form of boot disks, and small
transfers to zero-connectivity machines. Floppies are the only format not
keeping pace it would seem. They've been 1.4M for how long now, while
harddrives go from 500M -> 13Gig standard?
I just needed it tonight to set up a laptop that's not connected
to anything. Those disks may not hold much, but it's amazing how essential
a small file like an XF86Config file downloaded from the internet can be.
Mike
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