On Thursday 25 January 2001 18:07, you wrote:
> Prior to now, I used the following to format a disk. Now it
> doesn't work. What will work?
>
> setfdprm /dev/fd0 1440/1440 fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 mkfs /dev/fd0 1440
>
fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 && mkfs -t type /dev/fd0
where type is ext2 or vfat. There really is very little reason to put ext2
on a floppy because dd or some other will do it for you if necessary, and
besides vfat is _more_ efficient on a floppy (that is what fat/vfat was
originally, a floppy filesystem for IBM PC-DOS).
Civileme
>
> The above is a Linux format. I also need to know a DOS format
> command/syntax.
>
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