Formating floppies

Michael Havens plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:57:05 -0700


Thanks for your help.
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On Sunday 01 December 2002 11:53 pm, David Mandala wrote:
> Depends upon what you want the floppies for. Since most of the time your
> going to write a floppy, verify it and then unmount it ext3 would be
> overkill and waste a fair amount of space. I just usually use dos
> formatted floppies as I'm too lazy to format them and they come
> preformed to dos.
>
> If on the other hand you are planning on using floppies as your primary
> storage and there is risk of power loss while using the storage then
> ext3 has some value but again the cost is high on a floppy.
>
> On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 22:41, Michael Havens wrote:
> > I was wondering if, when formating floppies, it is better to do it in
> > ext2 format or if I should use ext3?
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