8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Robert Nichols]

Mikkel wrote:
> On 12/21/2009 03:13 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
>> Mikkel wrote:
>>> Under Linux, you can do both. While you will be asked if that is
>>> what you really want to do, the tools are happy to let you. Mount
>>> has no problems mounting /dev/sda if you have formatted /dev/sda.
>>> (Apposed to formatting /dev/sda1). Windows may not like it, but that
>>> is another story.
>> Putting a filesystem on the entire, unpartitioned device is referred
>> to as "super floppy" or "superfloppy" format.  It's been around, and
>> supported, since the days of ZIP disks.
>>
> My experience with ZIP disks was that if they came formatted, or if
> you used the Omega formatting tools, they always had one partition.
> What partition was an indication of what system they were formatted
> for. Windows was partition 4, Linux was partition 1, and I don't
> remember what MAC used. (It might not have used a DOS-type partition
> table.)

Probably true.  When I was looking for references to "super floppy"
format (formatting a larger drive in the manner of a floppy disk,
i.e. without partitioning) that came up as the time that term became
widely used.  Heck, I'm surprised I even recalled the name.

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