On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 10:27:35PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 10:25:32PM +0200, Jerome Lovy wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there a way to format and partition a magneto optical disk so
> > that it will be mountable both under NetBSD/Amiga and
> > GNU-Linux/PC ?
> 
> eeek.
> 
Slight correction:

> 
> a1) any disk will work. Use the raw device on NetBSD, and
> b1) use the all-disk "partition" and tar.
> 
> a2) you need 128-, 230- or 540- MB disks. 640 MB disks have 2kB/sector,
>     which is not correctly handled by NetBSD filesystem code up to 1.4.
> b2) use the all-disk "partition" and Linux ext2fs. NetBSD can handle this, 
>     if you compile "file-system ext2fs" into your kernel.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Ignatios