Re: how to format a floppy in ext2
You are right. I don't know what the hell I was thinking.
mke2fs /dev/fd0 is the best way.
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:07:39PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:03:03AM -0500, Darryl N . Grant wrote:
> > Whenever I format a floppy, I use mke2fs and then tell the mount point.
> >
> > Example: mke2fs /mnt
>
>
> Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but you shouldn't format mounted
> drives. You can only mount when there *is* a filesytem, and creating
> a filesystem after the mount might severely derange kernel buffers.
>
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