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

From Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card?
Date 2019-01-04 17:40 +0100
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On 2019-01-04, Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 01:36:59PM +0000, Curt wrote:
>>But how about:
>>
>>  -I When using MO disks, where partitions aren't always required, modifies
>>     mkfs.fat's default behavior, allowing it to write the filesystem across the
>>     entire, unpartitioned device (called 'superfloppy' format under some
>>     other OSes).
>
> Much better. But what does MO stand for?
>


I haven't the slightest idea (but assumed you folks in the know knew,
though)!

(Having now looked it seems MO stands for "Magneto-optical.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive

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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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