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arnesten
05-05-2001, 09:14 AM
Is it possible to format a fat16 partition from within Linux?

knute
05-05-2001, 01:38 PM
Yes.

As root mkdosfs /dev/hdb2.

That command will format a fat16 partition on the second hard drive and the second partition.