Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Curt wrote: 
> On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> wrote:
> >   I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
> >   Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it
> > appears that I can not supply a device name, just "emulated names"
> > like A: which are then translated to /dev/fd0 etc.
> 
> It seems you're supposed to use '/etc/mtools.conf' for this kind of
> thing.
> 
>  drive m: file="/dev/sdc"
> 
> Then:
> 
>  mformat m:
> 
> This from a very cursory examination of the problem on the internets.

Also doable:

mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc

-dsr-