On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:37:40AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > If you mean you want to erase every last cluster on the disk, then you can > > use the following command to do that, no matter what type of drive it is: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 count=<how far you want to go......omit to > > clear whole disk> > > This would be erasing a disk, not formatting it. fdformat handles the > formatting (writing the block index marks or whatever else is necessary [snip] one problem: [eb@socrates eb]$ fdformat /dev/fd0 Note: /usr/bin/fdformat is obsolete and is no longer available. Please use /usr/bin/superformat instead (make sure you have the fdutils package installed first). Also, there had been some major changes from version 4.x. Please refer to the documentation. [eb@socrates eb]$ and i remember someone mentioning that superformat doesn't work on powerpc... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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