Re: Re: 2048 bytes/sector media in 2.2.12

Riley Williams (rhw@MemAlpha.CX)
Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:01:27 +0100 (GMT)


Hi Peter.

>> 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).

> 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.

In my experience, neither Win95 nor Win98 can do that either, so I
wouldn't see that as a problem.

Best wishes from Riley.

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