On 26-Sep-2000 Felix Natter wrote: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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. > > minix fs is smaller, so it is probably is a better choice than ext2 for > floppies ? (although you can recover deleted (text-)data from ext2 rather > easily: see the Ext2-Undeletion-HOWTO; I'm not sure whether that's > possible > with minix) > > you can also use (v)fat in combination with tar, but that will give > you error messages like "cannot chmod"..
Unless you mount the floppy with the 'quiet' option.
