Re: How to enlarge 3.5"?
how to enlarge the 1.4MB 3.5" diskette capacity in linux?
Run this command on your computer
# ls -al /dev/fd0*
The fd0 device is the first floppy disk in your computer. Each form of
the name represents a different format. In particular, notice:
/dev/fd0u1440
/dev/fd0u1680
The first name represents a standard 1.44 megabyte floppy disk, and the
second name represents the 1.6 megabyte format that is also known as the
DMF format.
If you wish to format a floppy disk to 1.6 megabytes, then run this command:
# fdformat /dev/fd0u1680
(The fdformat program is provided by the util-linux package.)
Note that some computers cannot use floppy disks that are formatted
larger than 1.6 megabytes.
You must also create a filesystem on the floppy disk after using the
fdformat command:
# mkdosfs /dev/fd0u1680
(The mkdosfs program is provided by the dosfstools package.)
Then you can mount the device as usual:
# mount /dev/fd0u1680 /floppy
The regular device name may also work properly:
# mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
HTH.
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