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how to erase a fat floppy ?
- Thread starter haneo
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The following will low-level format a floppy, which destroys 100% of the disk...
fdformat /dev/fd0
If you want to high level format the floppy with a filesystem, the following will format in FAT32...
mkfs -t vfat /dev/fd0
...or in FAT16...
mkfs -t dos /dev/fd0
...or in ext3...
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/fd0
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fdformat /dev/fd0
If you want to high level format the floppy with a filesystem, the following will format in FAT32...
mkfs -t vfat /dev/fd0
...or in FAT16...
mkfs -t dos /dev/fd0
...or in ext3...
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/fd0
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