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Formating 2mb floppy disks in linux
Posted on 01-26-2006 06:22:00 UTC | Updated on 12-18-2008 19:40:24 UTC
Section: /hardware/disks/ | Permanent Link

If you have a box of floppies that say they are 2.0MB this means they are unformated. To get them working in linux you need to use fdformat to Low-level format the floppy disk. The command for that is

fdformat /dev/fd0H1440

or possibly

fdformat /dev/fd0

The you can put a file system on them. If you wanted to put a fat filesystem on it for M$ windows you could use this command

mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0H144

or try

mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0

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