Excuse my ignorance (I've only ever used dos 6.20 with 1.44M disks), but...
Why is ext2 wasteful of disk space? I usually format to 1920k (83 tracks doesn't always work for me, so I don't use 1992k). The larger block size and reserved space can be looked after with "mke2fs -b 512 -m 0 ...", and if it makes much difference you can even change the bytes per inode ratio with the "-i" option. I find the "lost+found" feature to be worth losing 12k over (a good technical reason to use ext2?). - Bruce -- On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: > > On 08-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Egon Schmid wrote: > > > >> > > No, floppies for Linux should be formatted with a Linux filesystem. > >> > > > >> > > >> > For what reason? > >> > >> I don't like M$ > > > > I mean a technical reason. > > I was looking for a technical reason too; for changing my habit of formatting > floppies for ext2. Now I have one. > > -- > Andrew > > [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > later, Bruce