Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 18:07, saugata ghosh wrote: > > Dear all, > > Can anybody tell me whats the command to format a > > floppy or partition in DOS filesystem or any > > filesystem other than extx in linux? > > Thanks in advance > > -Saugata > > > > > > basically, the steps are > > 1. fdformat /dev/fd0 > 2. makefs -t <whatever fs u want> /dev/fd0
This method is quite general but if you are formatting for msdos, then the bad sectors are not automatically marked (as they would be, if you formatted the floppy in DOS/Win. You have to use mbadblocks to find and mark the bad blocks after doing the above two steps. To format a floppy in DOS format for everyday use, I've found the "superformat" program from the fdutils package to be very useful. It automatically marks the bad sectors, just as formatting under DOS/Win would do. And then it lets you format the usual 1.44M floppies in fantastic capacities such as 1743K or 1992K or ... (I haven't tried any of these out, I confess, but you might!). - Manas Laha -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
