Re: how to access Linux formatted (ext2fs) floppies in WIN

[M K Saravanan <mksarav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Raja Subramanian wrote:

> IMHO formatting ext2 floppies is a pain as it is troublesome to find ext2
> read/write support for win/mac. I don't think that there are any real
> advantages in using ext2 on a floppy anyway. The easiest solution is to roll
> your files into a tarball and dump it on to a fat floppy :-)
> This really works, trust me!

thanks a lot for the useful info.  I have lot of damaged floppies, (one or two
sectors within the first three sectors bad) DOS refuses to create a filesystem
on such floppies.  It expect the first few sectors (I think three) to be good
inorder to successfully create a file system onit.  But ext2 expects only the
first sector to be good to create a successful file system.  Hence eventhough
it is not possible in DOS to use the floppy, I am able to use it with
ext2. 

-- mks --


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