Quoting Robert Voigt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I find the truncation of long filenames on MSDOS floppies really > annoying. But I haven't found a way to format a floppy in ext2. Fdformat > is obsolete, and superformat seems to be unable to format ext2. Is there > something that can do it?
While this thread has probably given you all the information you need for formatting floppies as ext2, I would recommend that you don't. As someone pointed out, vfat will give you long filenames (but not filenames that only differ in case; you didn't want that?). Remember that floppies don't lock themselves in like many removable media: the first time you eject a mounted floppy, you'll be left with the problem of unmounting it cleanly. Once a DOS floppy has finished writing, it doesn't matter if you forget all about it and eject it some days later - you can umount it after the event. Apart from that, I don't trust floppies enough myself just to copy files onto them; I prefer to use only zip files, which look after unix filenames, permissions etc., and give you some confidence that files you copy out of them are error-free. Finally, you can always get hold of a file if you're unfortunate enough to be near only non-linux machines by leaving a copy of unzip.exe on each floppy. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
