The Wednesday 2004-05-12 at 19:21 -0700, Stephen W wrote:
Such a little thing So much effort (trial and error) Who would ever think learning to format a floppy would be such a big thing?
You have click and shoot utilities on both gnome and kde for the job.
When I finally got the spellings right When I finally learned i had to be ROOT to do it
Not really. Read the thread... ...
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 29 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
Why check every 29 mounts ro 180 days...
Why not? :-P
Why? What is it looking for?
Errors.
What is "tune2fs" -c or -i to override
What is...? --> "whatis command" cer@nimrodel:~> whatis tune2fs tune2fs (8) - adjust tunable filesystem parameters on second extended filesystems
(Override what?)
The number of mounts or days at which to check the filesystem. Ie, if you what to check every two mounts, you would use "tune2fs -c 2 /dev/floppy"
Tried to look in man for "tune2fs" (Duh, am I in the dark) and there was a lot about "journaling" (which when I tried to man journal - there was "no entry." On to Google...
There is a bit in mke2fs(8). If you add a journal you get an "ext3" filesystem, which is probably unusable on a floppy. Actually, floppies are usually formated as minix (more space) or vfat (for sharing data). -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson