floppy has FAT16, FAT32 or other filesystem

[Guest]

floppy has FAT16, FAT32 or other filesystem. how can we read the same floppy
in Linux based os and Windows based os. either it is FAT16 or some other
filesystem, although i think it is FAT16. can we have any other filesystem
that we can have on a floppy which can be read, write-able on Windows and
Linux. please help.

 

[Ron Sommer]

Floppies are Fat 12.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/partSizes-c.html

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

floppy has FAT16, FAT32 or other filesystem.

No, it's neither. Standard flopppies are FAT12.

how can we read the same
floppy in Linux based os and Windows based os. either it is FAT16 or
some other filesystem, although i think it is FAT16. can we have any
other filesystem that we can have on a floppy which can be read,
write-able on Windows and Linux. please help.

I know nothing about what Linux can read. That question should be asked in
Linux group, not a Windows XP one.

 

[Frank]

sunnyboy_anshu wrote:
|| floppy has FAT16, FAT32 or other filesystem. how can we read the
|| same floppy in Linux based os and Windows based os. either it is
|| FAT16 or some other filesystem, although i think it is FAT16. can we
|| have any other filesystem that we can have on a floppy which can be
|| read, write-able on Windows and Linux. please help.

Floppy disks formatted MS FAT are just read with almost all Linux
distributions.

 

[Malke]

floppy has FAT16, FAT32 or other filesystem. how can we read the same
floppy in Linux based os and Windows based os. either it is FAT16 or
some other filesystem, although i think it is FAT16. can we have any
other filesystem that we can have on a floppy which can be read,
write-able on Windows and Linux. please help.

Linux can read floppies (FAT12 btw). What will be more important is what
program you in which you create the data on the floppies.

Malke

 

[Guest]

thx for all the help. the summary is:
floppy is formatted in FAT12.
Linux and Windows, both support this file system.
we can also use FAT16 to read-write in Linux and Windows.
but is there be another filesystem other then FAT which can be used to
read-write on both Linux and Windows or any other o/s? one i know is CDFS.
any other? i don't think windows supports any other filesystems other then
FAT and NTFS. so any other o/s that supports these FS can be used along with
Windows.

well, i did not find a better place to ask this question, so i posted here.i
think there are a lot of guys who use Windows along with other types of o/s.
so someone could help me out with this.

 

[Malke]

thx for all the help. the summary is:
floppy is formatted in FAT12.
Linux and Windows, both support this file system.
we can also use FAT16 to read-write in Linux and Windows.
but is there be another filesystem other then FAT which can be used to
read-write on both Linux and Windows or any other o/s? one i know is CDFS.
any other? i don't think windows supports any other filesystems other then
FAT and NTFS. so any other o/s that supports these FS can be used along
with Windows.

well, i did not find a better place to ask this question, so i posted
here.i think there are a lot of guys who use Windows along with other
types of o/s. so someone could help me out with this.

What are you trying to do? Linux can write to FAT12, 16, and 32. Windows
cannot deal with any file systems except Microsoft file systems.

If you will tell us your end goal, then you will be able to get more focused
advice. It is important the the *programs* you put on the floppy are
compatible. If you are just transferring data and don't care about opening
it (which really doesn't make any sense to me, but you never know) then you
can use a floppy formatted in Windows to transfer data to Linux. You can
also use usb thumb drives to transfer data from Windows to Linux and vice
versa.

Malke

 

[Guest]

actually i just wanted to share some files between Linux and Windows that i
have on the same HDD. generally i would have used a floppy for that but for
some reasons i have done away with floppies. as options i have CD/DVD, usb
and partitions on my HDD. i would like to avoid using a CD/DVD as it gives
trouble on Linux probably because i am not so good at it now. so for the time
being i want something else. i don't have a usb, neither have any plans to
get one right now. so i am left with HDD. my problem was, should i dedicate a
partition for sharing files between the two OS's. that would mean a
compatible filesystem for both the os.
as far as compatibility is concerned, i am transferring my codes from
windows to linux, make modifications to them and then compile it. im just
trying to make things easier for me.

 

[Steve N.]

actually i just wanted to share some files between Linux and Windows that i
have on the same HDD. generally i would have used a floppy for that but for
some reasons i have done away with floppies. as options i have CD/DVD, usb
and partitions on my HDD. i would like to avoid using a CD/DVD as it gives
trouble on Linux probably because i am not so good at it now. so for the time
being i want something else. i don't have a usb, neither have any plans to
get one right now. so i am left with HDD. my problem was, should i dedicate a
partition for sharing files between the two OS's. that would mean a
compatible filesystem for both the os.
as far as compatibility is concerned, i am transferring my codes from
windows to linux, make modifications to them and then compile it. im just
trying to make things easier for me.

Most people create a FAT32 partition and use it to share files between
Windows and Linux. Be mindful that FAT32 has a file size limit of just
under 4GB.

Steve N.

 

[Malke]

actually i just wanted to share some files between Linux and Windows that
i have on the same HDD. generally i would have used a floppy for that but
for some reasons i have done away with floppies. as options i have CD/DVD,
usb and partitions on my HDD. i would like to avoid using a CD/DVD as it
gives trouble on Linux probably because i am not so good at it now. so for
the time being i want something else. i don't have a usb, neither have any
plans to get one right now. so i am left with HDD. my problem was, should
i dedicate a partition for sharing files between the two OS's. that would
mean a compatible filesystem for both the os.
as far as compatibility is concerned, i am transferring my codes from
windows to linux, make modifications to them and then compile it. im just
trying to make things easier for me.

See, if you had just said this in your *first* post we would all be done by
now.

Ways to transfer data from Windows to Linux machines (in no particular
order):

1. Floppy.
2. USB thumb drive - go buy one. You can get a 512MB thumb drive for around
$25USD.
3. Over the local area network. Set up Samba on Linux. Since you apparently
only have one machine which you are dual-booting, this isn't applicable to
you.
4. CD-R - figure out why you are having trouble with this because it should
Just Work.
5. Upload data to ftp site from one OS, download from the other OS.
6. If you are dual-booting Linux with XP (NTFS), create a "buffer" partition
formatted FAT32 for shared data since Linux cannot safely write to NTFS.

Once again, you have left out what damn *program* you are using. If you are
using a text editor on Windows, Linux can read text created in Notepad with
no problem; however Unix handles end-of-line differently than Windows and
you will need to adjust for this. Also Unix does not identify file
associations with file extensions as Windows does. Remember to name your
Unix file with an extension or Windows will not know what to do with it.

Example: In Linux - "myprogram" created in Kate will open in Kate. If you
want to transfer the file to Windows, name it "myprogram.txt" so it will
open in Notepad.

You can't possibly write a program for an operating system which you don't
understand, so it would be a Good Thing for you to learn at least the
basics about Linux if you want to use it.

Malke