On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 12:48:16PM +0300, Eugen Constantinescu wrote:
> Hello everybody !
> I need an information about formating a floppy disk.
> I have a RH 4.2 system.
>
> How can I format a floppy disk in DOS format ?
>
> I want to work in Linux with some DOS floppies.
> I know how to mount but I didn't know how to format.
Here's a short shellscript I use to do the deed:
#!/bin/sh
# low-level format a diskette and write a validated DOS filesystem on it.
fdformat -n $1
if [ $? = 0 ]
then
/sbin/mkdosfs -vc $1
else
echo Format failed!
fi
echo
echo done...
echo format another?
read kb
case $kb in
y|Y)
# a kludge. sorta like using a goto without the goto.
exec $0 $*
;;
*)
;;
esac
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