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Re: how to format a floppy in ext2



On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 05:44:29PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
> I find the truncation of long filenames on MSDOS floppies really 
> annoying. But I haven't found a way to format a floppy in ext2. Fdformat 
> is obsolete, and superformat seems to be unable to format ext2. Is there 
> something that can do it?

how about
mke2fs /dev/fd0

yours martin
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