On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:59:04PM -0700, Joseph wrote
> Are there any advantages of ext2 or ext3 on floppy? I will be
> formating floppy to 1.68Mb or 1.72Mb as I need extra space for
> floppy firewall.
An ext2 floppy will have less space than a FAT floppy, due to inodes.
Ext3 on a floppy may not be possible. The default .journal for ext3 is
32 megs, although it can be forced down to 4 megs. Given smaller
blocksize on a floppy, it might be smaller, but I don't think that you
can afford to give up enough space on the floppy for a useful journal
file.
You can push floppy diskspace a bit beyond the usual limits. emerge
fdutils and mutils. One of the commands that fdutils loads is
"superformat". A couple of interesting formats (from the superformat
info page) are...
The following example shows how to format a 1743K disk in drive 0 (83
cylinders times 21 sectors):
superformat /dev/fd0 sect=21 cyl=83
The following example shows how to format a 1992K disk in drive 0 (83
cylinders times 2 heads times 12 KB per track)
superformat /dev/fd0 tracksize=12KB cyl=83 mss
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