floppy disk formatting: how to?
Mikkel
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Sep 22 23:27:40 UTC 2009
Aldo Foot wrote:
>
> You can also choose to format with ext2 or fat filesystem.
>
> floppy --ext2 --format A: #ext2
>
> /sbin/mkdosfs /dev/fd0 #fat
>
> the latter allows you to use the floppy on both linux and windows.
>
One difference - floppy does both low and high level formats.
mkdosfs will only do a high level format.
Mikkel
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