Re: Floppies - Actual Question

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Floppies - Actual Question
Date	2025-09-24 12:04 +0200
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On 2025-09-24 06:02, c186282 wrote:
> Recently got a USB floppy reader.

I have no experience with that, but I can say that we did not put 
partitions on floppies.


You might try "mformat" from "mtools". However, the manual says this:

Description
        The  mformat  command  is used to add an MS-DOS
        file system to a low-level formatted  diskette.

On another paragraph it says

        X      formats the disk as  an  XDF  disk.  See
               section  XDF, for more details. The disk
               has first to be low-level formatted  us-
               ing  the xdfcopy utility included in the
               fdutils package. XDF disks are used  for
               instance for OS/2 install disks.



I don't have "xdfcopy" installed, but the manual can be found here:

https://man.he.net/man1/xdfcopy

Name
        xdfcopy - copy and format XDF disks in Linux

So maybe this is not the tool to low format floppies for FAT.


So I asked chatgpt. It says to use "fdformat".

   fdformat /dev/fd0


Also

   superformat /dev/fd0

can create weird formats. So it says to use:

   fdformat /dev/fd0           # Low-level format
   mformat a:


But then says instead you can use:

   mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0              # Creates a FAT filesystem directly





-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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                Re: Floppies - Actual Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-25 12:48 +0100
                Re: Floppies - Actual Question "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-25 22:15 +0200
                Re: Floppies - Actual Question c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-25 21:06 -0400
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