[linux-help] Re: Saving to a floppy disk

["gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Jeff Vian" <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:53 AM
Subject: [linux-help] Re: Saving to a floppy disk


> True on the long filename support, but not for the floppy format.
> AFAIK the "auto" setting in the fstab for the floppy always picks vfat,
> but it is not necessary that it do so.

hmm...  i thought it defaulted to msdos, not vfat...  atleast it used to
(circa RH5.1 days)...  maybe that's changed (which would be good)...

> You can use a floppy formatted under dos 3.2 on a win98 machine and
> still use long filenames. In fact I have floppies that I have not used
> for many years and tried it successfully.
> See the listing below.

correct me if i'm wrong, but don't floppies use FAT12?  i tho't i remembered
seeing that in my win2k pro book in class...  i'm guessing that the VFAT
stuff is like a layer that sits on top of the actual format and just does
the xlation (oh, just read the rest of your e-mail...  i agree about the
long filename basically being a pointer to the shorter one...  you can even
see the short names in win98+ w/ a commandline switch to the dir command ...
dir /x shows both short and long names)

thanks for the good explainations and examples... : ^ )

gLaNDix


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