floppies. floppies formatted in linux is generally unrecognizable by Windows* just like the emergency bootdisk made during installation. or so I am said. ;-)
It depends on what you mean by 'fomatting'. Floppies in Windows are formatted, but the filesystem is FAT, and it's laid down as part of the formatting process. In Windows, this is a single step, and you can't separate the function of formatting (writing format info and verifying for bad blocks etc.) and the function of making the filesystem. In Linux, these are two separate steps. In fact, floppies don't need to have filesystems on them. The boot floppy is one example although there is a filesystem in that case. If you format (i.e., make the filesystem) in Linux as FAT, you can read the disk in Windows. However, Windows can't handle other filesystem formats, raw tar/cpio 'floppy tapes' etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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