Formatting a disk volume while something else is using it is a Bad Thing (tm)
umount /dev/fd0
You may need to kill/suspend any automount daemon if you have one running.
On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 03:02 AM, nyal wrote:
Greetings all,--
Formatting a floppy should be an easy task, right? Not for us newbies it
seems!
Checked the floppy with Konsole to make sure there's nothing on it I want to
keep (there's not)
Installed fdutils.........tried to superformat /dev/fd0 (found this on a
webpage)
Got the message the device is busy. Tried to find fdutils help but no luck.
( At the prompt in the terminal do you type fdutils help or fdutils ? or
fdutils /help or what?)
How do I "unbusy" the drive so's I can format the floppy?
Thanks, Nyal
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