Re: Re: 2048 bytes/sector media in 2.2.12
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
2 Sep 1999 20:54:35 GMT
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909022009580.22315-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>
By author: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi Klaus.
>
> >> Does that mean I can get a DVD RAM drive and use it under Linux
> >> with a 2.2. kernel now? I've been waiting for that :)
>
> > Yes, the Panasonic works just fine. I'm still missing some
> > utilities (such as mkfs.vfat and mkfs.hfs), but otherwise it
> > seems to be ok.
>
> My experience has been that mkdosfs can be used as mkfs.vfat (it's
> most certainly what I use, and I've never had any problems from doing
> so).
>
> I can't comment about mkfs.hfs though as I've never used it.
>
> Best wishes from Riley.
>
The only think mkdosfs can't do to create a VFAT filesystem (that
would be different from creating a plain FAT filesystem) is setting
the disk label to something longer than 11 characters.
-hpa
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