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GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
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Format a Floppy

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The Gnome tool to format a floppy disk is gfloppy, as shown in Figure 32.1. This can be accessed from Applications-->System Tools-->Floppy Formatter.

Figure 32.1: The Gnome floppy formatter.
Image gnome-floppy-format

From the command line there are several options. You can format the floppy with: 

  $ superformat /dev/fd0
Similarly the command: 

  $ fdformat /dev/fd0
will also format a floppy, but does not create an file system. A file system can be created with mkdosfs. You could put, instead of a MSDOS file system on the floppy, a Linux file system with: 

  $ mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0


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