This is such a stupid question

[RedEyes]

I realize this is a totally stupid question -- but ---
How the hell do I format a floppy?? I can't even remember the command, it's been so long since I've had to do it....
Thanks in advance for your help! ;) ;)

[Craig McPherson]

FAT:

mkfs -t vfat /dev/fd0

Ext2:

mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0

You'll have to use FAT if you want to use the floppy in Widows. You'll have to use Ext2 if you want the floppy to support ownership and permissiongs. You could theoretically put any other filesystem on the floppy (ReiserFS, NTFS), but a lot of them wouldn't fit.

[ 14 June 2001: Message edited by: Craig McPherson ]

[Craig McPherson]

This is assuming the floppy has already been physically (low-level) formatted.

If you somehow managed to acquire a floppy that's never been low-level formatted, you can use "fdformat" to do it. But I haven't seen a non-formatted floppy in years.