On Friday 19 Sep 2003 8:58 am, s wrote: > On Thursday 18 September 2003 08:30 pm, cervixcouch wrote: > > I've tried "mke2fs /dev/fd0" AND "fdformat /dev/fd0" both of > > which appear to have worked, i.e. no error messages. > > make sure supermount is disabled, and the the floppy isn't mounted. > fdformat first, then mkdosfs. really vfat should be used on > floppies, even if it's for linux files. > I presume that you would lose the permissions, though?
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