Formatting Floppy Disks

• Two types of format needed to prepare a floppy:

  • A low level format (rarely needed)
    • fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
  • A filesystem, one of:
    • mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0
    • mke2fs /dev/fd0
    • mkfs -t vfat /dev/fd0
    • mformat a: