Formatting diskette

[StanLin]

I just learnt how to mount a floppy. Now, how to I format it ext2? Is there a something similar to Dos's copy a: a:
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[posterboy]

Actually there's more than one way. I use mke2fs /dev/fd0 most often. This depends on other facts that the system learns from elsewhere, but standard distros are set up for this, by default. The diskette should not be mounted while this is done. The man page give some idea of the flexibility of this command.
Ray

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