Re: dos floppies

[Damion Yates <nospam [at] rd.bbc.co.uk>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Al Hudson wrote:
 
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
> 
> > You might also want to mount dos floppies (why you might want to
> > do this having mtools scapes me, though), messing about with /etc/fstab.
> 
> (Nit-picking) Mounting a DOS floppy would give you the benefit of
> caching, whereas mtools is write-through. I believe?

I'd see that as a disadvantage normally, sure it can be nice, but in this
day and age floppies are for quick and dirty use.
 
> But yes, I don't use anything except mtools with DOS floppies.

I've found it worth using capitals for all filenames, as that stops win95's
doslabel kludge for extended filenames, which is called vfat in Linux, this
stops it breaking sun's floppy access, old dos access, Atari ST's access..

> In fact, I use super-mount too, so there's non of this mount /this /that
> -switch -switch -switch business  ;)))

Coo Supermount, that's on my list of, "must try at some point" things, what's
it like?

Damion

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