How do I format a floppy?

[Canadianrabbit]

Using Mandrake 8.1 and KDE. I'd like to format so that I can share files with Windoze.

[jglen490]

Linux will recognize a fat-formatted floppy. Just declare it as "fat" or "msdos" in the mount options. See the man pages for the mount command.

[mdwatts]

I have a KDE app under Utilities called Floppy Formatter.

Commandline use fdformat

man fdformat for details.

[Estel]

If you still haven't figured it out all you have to do is right-click on the floppy drive (in most cases A:/) and click format

[littleman]

Usermount is a simple GTK+ based gui that comes in handy for mounting and formatting.

[slapNUT]

fdformat -n /dev/fd0
mkdosfs /dev/fd0