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Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card?

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Hi,

Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> > what does MO stand for?

tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> I'd guess "magneto-optical".

It would match the term "superfloppy" in man mkdosfs.
(Larger, more heavy, even less reliable than floppy disks.)

Possibly some of the MO genes survived in DVD-RAM. E.g. the glossy rectangles
sprinkled over the writable surface or the cartridges around early DVD-RAM
media.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2019-01-03 09:10 +0100
  Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-03 11:40 +0100
    Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-01-03 21:10 +0100
      Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 11:00 +0100
        Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-04 14:40 +0100
          Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 17:30 +0100
            Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-04 17:40 +0100
              Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 05:00 +0100
            Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-04 17:40 +0100
              Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2019-01-04 18:50 +0100
            Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2019-01-04 20:10 +0100
              Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-05 10:30 +0100
                Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-01-05 10:40 +0100
                Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-05 12:00 +0100
              Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-07 13:30 +0100
          typos (was: Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card?) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 04:20 +0100
          Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 04:20 +0100
          Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 04:40 +0100
            Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-01-05 10:10 +0100

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