Formatting USB Floopy Drive RedHat9
I feel bad on posting this because this should be something easy to figure out but it has me whipped I can mount my floopy read and write to it but when it comes to formatting all I can format it is ext2 filesystem but I want to format it to vfat here is the command I have been trying to use
/sbin/mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) mkfs.vfat: Will not try to make filesystem on '/dev/sda' but when I try to make ext2 no problem heres the output /sbin/mke2fs /dev/sda mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) /dev/sda is entire device, not just one partition! Proceed anyway? (y,n) y Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 184 inodes, 1440 blocks 72 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 1 block group 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 184 inodes per group Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 31 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. [root@localhost downloads]# but I want vfat tried also the fdformat command fdformat /dev/sda Could not determine current format type: Invalid argument I will appreciate any help getting a headache from looking on the web for a simple answer |
Format the First Partition
Try using /sbin/mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1 instead to format the first partition on the device.
Hope this helps. |
Floppies are not formated as vfat but msdos.
mkfs -t msdos /dev/sda; |
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