what the DOS world call formating concerns in fact two tasks:
-formating the disk
-creating a filesystem on it
so the DOS format command does both in one operation.
under linux you will have to use fdformat to format the disk and mkfs to
create a filesystem on it.
(read the man pages of these two commands)
-----Message d'origine-----
De: Christoph Hammann [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Date: mercredi 23 septembre 1998 13:49
�: Darren Rees; Linux Newbie
Objet: Re: formatting a floppy
Darren Rees wrote:
> Help! I don't know how to *format* a floppy.
>
> (I've been using leftovers from Windoze days
> for the past year. Now I've run out of those)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Darren Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> A heuo a gred yn Nuw. He that sows trusts in God.
> http://www.netlink.co.uk/users/merlin/berfau/
Hi Darren,
assuming you want to create a second extension filesystem on a 3,5
floppy, do this:
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0 1440
Also, KDE offers a comfortable graphical front end for formatting
floppies with Kfloppy.
So long,
Christoph
