Hi,
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > Well, thank you, this did work. Why doesn´t mke2fs need this?
>
> to encourage you to use a real filesystem instead of that horrible
> msdos thing?
Hmm, :-)
> in general i run superformat --superverify (does double verification
> in addition to
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:23:46AM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
>
> Well, thank you, this did work. Why doesn´t mke2fs need this?
to encourage you to use a real filesystem instead of that horrible
msdos thing?
> Which one is better for formatting floppies in DOS format, mkdosfs or
> superfo
Hi,
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > I guess, there must be something missing. Perhaps DOS formatted
> > superfloppies need an extra treatment in addition?
>
> yes, read the mkdosfs man page and you find this gem:
Well, thank you, this did work. Why doesn´t mke2fs need this?
>
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 11:31:52AM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
>
> I tried mkfs.vfat and it says the same:
>
> alphons:/home/khe# mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc
> mkfs.vfat 2.5 (07 Jan 2000)
> mkfs.vfat: Will not try to make filesystem on '/dev/sdc'
not surprising:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ ls -l /sbin/
Hi,
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Jon Pennington wrote:
> > I tried it now the same way with mkdosfs and it refuses to do so. What
> > is the trick? With partitions on the MOD, the drive designations of the
> > OS/2 system, with which the data have to be exchanged, will be messed
> > up.
>
> I'm just sh
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> this question might sound quite stupid, but: How to format an MOD of
> 640MB as superfloppy with dos filesystem?
>
> Until now I only needed ext2fs. I used fdisk (fdisk -b2048 /dev/sdc),
> deleted the partition, wrote the new data to the disk and could
> lat
Hi,
this question might sound quite stupid, but: How to format an MOD of
640MB as superfloppy with dos filesystem?
Until now I only needed ext2fs. I used fdisk (fdisk -b2048 /dev/sdc),
deleted the partition, wrote the new data to the disk and could
lateron install an ext2fs with "ext2fs -b2048
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