Nyal,
the issue is you want to unmount it before formatting it. Since you used
konsole to check it, supermount had mounted it, and it was in use. You want
to unmount your drive, and first it has to not be in use to unmount it. So..
cd to another location, and make sure nothing is using it (such as
konqueoror.)
then you can unmount it
umount /dev/fd0
then you can format it
mke2fs /dev/fd0
(the above line assumes you want to make a ext 2 filesystem on it... )
Jamie
On Sunday 04 January 2004 06:02 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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