Floppy written in CentOS won't mount in FC3

[Andy Green]

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Michael A. Peters wrote:

|>BTW a floppy can have whatever filesystem you want on it, vfat, ext2,
|>ext3, etc, just depends what filesystem you put on it when you
formatted it.
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| Not sure what the point of an ext3 floppy would be, but ...

I mentioned it because of the "floppies are not vfat" advice which is
wrong.  But actually I have to stand partially corrected on ext3... I
just tried it on a 1.44M file and mke2fs -j complains

Filesystem too small for a journal

However it will create a journal on a 2.88MB filesystem, so you can
indeed have ext3 on a 2.88MB floppy.

Possibly the journalling can come in handy on such a removable device.

- -Andy
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