The fdformat command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive. Authorsįd(4), emkfs(8), mkfs(8), setfdprm(8), ufiformat(8) Reporting Bugsįor bug reports, use the issue tracker at. This utility does not handle USB floppy disk drives. Skip the verification that is normally performed after the formatting. Try to repair tracks failed during the verification (max N retries). The following commands do not require mounting of the filesystem. In this case, use setfdprm(8) to load the disk parameters. Typically a formatted floppy diskette with a filesystem requires the diskette to be mounted before use. The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work with fdformat when a non-standard format is being used, or if the format has not been autodetected earlier. Heres a simple solution to format a disk on a Linux system. device is usually one of the following (for floppy devices the major = 2, and the minor is shown for informational purposes only): /dev/fd0d360 (minor = 4) Once a partition is created, you can use the mkfs.ext4 command to format the disk. Fdformat does a low-level format on a floppy disk.
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