On Friday 13 June 2003 11:17, kostas wrote:
> Hello all
> i want to make a small script for formating a floppy disk.
> Does anybody knows how the bash command is?
>
> Kostas Dimitriou
> http://gasdim.topcities.com (greek)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] frans]$ apropos floppy
fdformat (8) - Low-level formats a floppy disk
floppyd (1) - floppy daemon for remote access to floppy drive
floppyd_installtest - tests whether floppyd is installed and running
floppyd_installtest (1) - tests whether floppyd is installed and running
gfloppy (1) - a simple floppy formatter for the GNOME
mbadblocks (1) - tests a floppy disk, and marks the bad blocks in
the FAT
mformat (1) - add an MSDOS filesystem to a low-level formatted
floppy disk
mkbootdisk (8) - creates a stand-alone boot floppy for the running
system
mkrescue (8) - make rescue floppy
setfdprm (8) - sets user-provided floppy disk parameters
I think you want mformat and maybe fdformat.
HTH,
-Frans
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