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Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

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On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 1:46 PM Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
>
> On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> wrote:
> >   I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
> >   Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it
> > appears that I can not supply a device name, just "emulated names"
> > like A: which are then translated to /dev/fd0 etc.
>
> It seems you're supposed to use '/etc/mtools.conf' for this kind of
> thing.
>
>  drive m: file="/dev/sdc"
>
> Then:
>
>  mformat m:

Thanks! This worked well, all the mtools utilities now works with the USB drive.

I wonder when the GNU people will understand that no one wants their
enforced info files and start write actual manual pages for the tools.
Normally the manual pages has a "See Also" section, but mformat does
not mention the configuration file or refers to the mtools manual page
which does.

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Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2019-03-17 13:30 +0100
  Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-03-17 13:50 +0100
    Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-03-17 17:40 +0100
    Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 20:50 +0100
  Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-17 17:50 +0100
    Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 21:10 +0100
      Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-03-20 21:20 +0100
      Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-21 03:20 +0100
        Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2019-03-21 04:10 +0100
  Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-03-20 21:10 +0100

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