Re: How do you format a floppy on Linux ?

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:53:43AM +0530, shyamk@eth.net wrote:
| My floppy shows (on Linux) as having a bad FAT partition , and
| therefore , Linux will not read from the floppy .
| 
| What commands and what flags do I use on Linux to format the floppy
| (into whichever fs type I wish , say, FAT or ext2 ) ?

mkfs -t <type> /dev/fd0

where type can be 'vfat' or 'ext2' amongst others.

-D