pretty easy question

[Kirk Wood]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Adam Myrow wrote:
> That won't work if the disk has never been formatted before.  If you have
> to format a floppy, first do "superformat /dev/fd0" as root, and to make
> it Linux native, do the "mke2fs /dev/fd0."  Otherwise, it will be for DOS
> or Windows.  Another note, if a user is in the group "floppy," they can
> format floppies without first having to "su" to root.

You do not have to use superformat first. This is an optional tool. You
can in fact simply run the command "mke2fs /dev/floppy". The tool
superformat gives you additional control features and will allow you to
fit more information into the disk. That being said, it is not going to be
found on every linux box around. It isn't on mine. Then again, it may have
been part of the default install. I simply don't know. I do know that I
just formatted a floppy and stored a file on it simply using the "mke2fs
/dev/fd0" command.

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