On Friday 13 June 2003 11:17, kostas wrote:
> Hello all
> i want to make a small script for formating a floppy disk.
> Does anybody knows how the bash command is?
>
> Kostas Dimitriou
> http://gasdim.topcities.com (greek)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] frans]$ apropos floppy
fdformat             (8)  - Low-level formats a floppy disk
floppyd              (1)  - floppy daemon for remote access to floppy drive 
floppyd_installtest - tests whether floppyd is installed and running
floppyd_installtest  (1)  - tests whether floppyd is installed and running
gfloppy              (1)  - a simple floppy formatter for the GNOME
mbadblocks           (1)  - tests a floppy disk, and marks the bad blocks in 
the FAT
mformat              (1)  - add an MSDOS filesystem to a low-level formatted 
floppy disk
mkbootdisk           (8)  - creates a stand-alone boot floppy for the running 
system
mkrescue             (8)  - make rescue floppy
setfdprm             (8)  - sets user-provided floppy disk parameters

I think you want mformat and maybe fdformat.

HTH,

    -Frans


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