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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