On Sat, 5 Jan 2019 10:20:51 +0100 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 08:05:48PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Le 04/01/2019 à 17:25, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : > > >On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 01:36:59PM +0000, Curt wrote: > > >>But how about: > > >> > > >> -I When using MO disks, where partitions aren't always required, > > >>modifies mkfs.fat's default behavior, allowing it to write the > > >>filesystem across the entire, unpartitioned device (called > > >>'superfloppy' format under some other OSes). > > > > > >Much better. > > > > I disagree. It misleads the reader into believing that the option > > applies only to magneto-optical disks, while it also applies to > > fixed disks and, I guess, any other storage device type. > > Actually most of my USB sticks have no partition table, just one > filesystem on them. Scares the hell out of MACs and Windows boxes :-) >
The problem with those is that they *nearly* work on an OS which doesn't understand them. Just well enough to cause trouble... -- Joe
