Hi,
Im wondering what the advantage is to formatting a zip, or floppy
disk with a ufs file system when I can read a right to Dos fs with no
problem. Thanks.
-Dave
by David Brod » Sat, 20 Mar 1999 04:00:00
-Dave
by Christopher J. Matter » Sat, 20 Mar 1999 04:00:00
You mean aside from the long filenames, the ability to properly setQuote:> Hi,
> Im wondering what the advantage is to formatting a zip, or floppy
> disk with a ufs file system when I can read a right to Dos fs with no
> problem. Thanks.
I'd only use a DOS filesystem if I anticipated a regular need to
use the disk on a DOS/Windows box.
Chris Mattern
by Sarif Koic » Sun, 21 Mar 1999 04:00:00
When I used 2.2.7 with SCSI ZIP years ago, the most advantage was the speed.
I didn`t check if there`s a code improvement on msdos fs now. Would
you try both fs speed by copying large chunk of file/directory.
| > Hi,
| > Im wondering what the advantage is to formatting a zip, or floppy
| > disk with a ufs file system when I can read a right to Dos fs with no
| > problem. Thanks.
|
| You mean aside from the long filenames, the ability to properly set
| file ownership and permissions, and the better filesystem robustness
| and performance?
|
| I'd only use a DOS filesystem if I anticipated a regular need to
| use the disk on a DOS/Windows box.
|
| Chris Mattern
1. Lilo on a Zip disk OR how to make a Zip disk bootable
Hi all,
I have a internal (ATAPI) Zip drive and proceed to make a
(reduced) linux system on a Zip disk as backup. However, lilo refuses
to install the loader on the disk. It issues a warning about the boot
device is snot the first hard disk and report that
device 0x1604
maximum of sectors 63 not 96
Then it exit without doing any thing. It also refuses to load a kernel
from the Zip disk, but using this disk as a root file system is ok.
Note that my BIOS seems capable to boot from a Zip disk. It view it as
floptical and when I put floptical in the first sequence (before IDE
drive) it indeed look for boot sector onthe disk (but can find anay,
of course). The problem seems to arize from the fact that linux and my
bios don't agree on the disk geomatry ? Runing fdisk on /dev/hdc
yields
Disk /dev/hdc: 64 heads, 96 sectors, 32 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 6144 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc2 1 1 3 9168 82 Linux swap
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(258, 63, 32) logical=(2, 63, 96)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(258, 63, 32) should be (258, 63, 96)
/dev/hdc4 4 4 32 89088 83 Linux native
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(287, 63, 32) logical=(31, 63, 96)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(287, 63, 32) should be (287, 63, 96)
My question are
1) What is the reason of the above discrepency. Can it be corrected.
2) So far the above dosen't cause any problem, except that lilo refuse
to install. Is there a way to force lilo to install and still working ?
Thank.
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