floppy disk formatting: how to?

[Tony Nelson]

On 09-09-24 16:29:28, Hiisi wrote:
 ...
> 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
> 
> 'Lupa evätty' means 'Permission denied'
> Do you, Floppy GuRus, have a solution to that also?

Here `MAKEDEV -n fd0` said all the device nodes would have group 
"floppy".  If that is what your device nodes show, then adding the user 
to the "floppy" group should work.

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