Re: how does one format a floppy to use a vfat partition

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Subject: Re: how does one format a floppy to use a vfat partition
From: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:45:42 +0100
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also sprach CaT <cat@zip.com.au> [2002.12.03.0323 +0100]:
> also, formatting a partition should be the same as formatting a floppy.

on UNIX, you don't format. you make filesystems, the process of which
is independent of the medium (hdd, floppy, file)...

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