[ale] Formatting a fixed disk and diskette

[robert at ast.lmco.com (Robert L. Harris)]

Christopher Smiga wrote:
> 
> Could someone send me the syntax to format a fixed disk and floppy
> diskette in Linux.
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toformat your second ide hard-disk, first partition as dos it would be :
mkfs -t msdos /dev/hdb1
  as a linx filesystem
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb1

The floppy would be simmilar except use /dev/fd0 instead.

mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0

Robert

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