floppy disk formatting: how to?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Hiisi writes:

> 2009/9/24 Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com>:
>> Mikkel writes:
> <--SNIP-->
>>
>> After some more digging I've came to pretty much the same conclusion. So
>> after a few years of general inactivity, I'm going to update floppy with the
>> current device names, and I'll see if I can the upstream to update the fd(7)
>> man page. But until the updated floppy makes it way into the Fedora branch
>> of util-linux-ng, running MAKEDEV is the only workaround.
>>
>>
> Hello, guys!
> Thanks for the help you gave me. 'MAKEDEV fd0' did the trick - I can
> format floppy as root. But when I'm trying it as usual user I have:
> $ floppy --ext2 --format A:
> floppy 0.16 Copyright 2001-2006, Double Precision, Inc.
> 
> /dev/fd0H1440: Lupa evätty
> No formattable capacities for /dev/fd0

Only root can open the floppy device directly, and only root can issue a 
format.

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