>From: Waldi Ravens <waldi@moacs.indiv.nl.net>
>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 08:43:46 +0100 (MET-1)
>
>Mike Long wrote:
>
>> >No problem. When newdosfs(8) sets the number of reserved sectors to 2 instead
>> >of the usual 1, the second reserved sector can be used to store timestamps and
>> >other usefull information (should of course be protected by a magic number
>> >and checksum).
>> 
>> That doesn't do you any good if the disk was formatted under DOS,
>> though.
>
>Sorry, I don't see how formatting a disk can have any effect on the
>creation of a file system afterwards (or the partioning in between).
>Please, elaborate.

What I meant was the use of the DOS FORMAT command to create an MSDOS
filesystem.  DOS' FORMAT will always reserve only one sector; so any
system that relies on a second reserved sector won't always work.
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