Hello, Pollywog: > I was going about reformatting a floppy disk I use to backup my Exim > filters and configs and I remembered something: DOS floppies are limited > to 8.3 type names. I believe there are some ways around this
umsdos - unix filesystem on top of MS DOS - that way you'll be able to read the files from a DOS machine. (There'll be an extra file visible in DOS, which contains the permissions/ownerships/long names.) Be careful when changing this under DOS - umssync can handle most changes, but replacing a something (eg a softlink) with something of the same name but completely different type (eg a directory) can mess things up no end. vfat - win95 filesystem - provides long filenames but nothing else You could also use tar (or one of its siblings) and write the tar.gz file on an msdos-formatted floppy (as .tgz) or directly onto the raw device. Jiri
