Kyle Burton on Fri, 13 Aug 1999 10:19:06 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] Formatting Floppies...


ext2 is kind of piggish for floppies (wastes space for too many inodes unless
you tune it during the file system creation).  I've heard that fat or
minix are better choices for floppies...

k

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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Charles Stack wrote:

> Okay..stupid question.  How do I format a floppy diskette for ext2?
> Command-line?  Gnome?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charles
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