Re: [Plug] Formatting Floppies...here's how we do it

[tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com]

Here's how we do it...
     fdformat /dev/fd0H1440        This does the initial formatting
     badblocks/dev/fd0 -s -v 1440 1      This rechecks for bad blocks file
systems from unices beat up floppies much more than DOS does -- "generic"
floppies that work fine in DOS many times don't pass this test in Linux)
     mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0       This actually creates the file system on the
floppy
Hope this helps..

Tom Burba
U.S. Vision, Inc.
tburba@usvision.com
609-228-1000




charles@codycomp.com on 08/13/99 10:15:16 AM

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Okay..stupid question.  How do I format a floppy diskette for ext2?
Command-line?  Gnome?
Thanks,
Charles

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