[SLUG] Formating Zip disc's

[Adams, Jamie]

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> From: 	Al Girling[SMTP:al21 at firenet.uk.com]
> Reply To: 	scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Sent: 	31 October 2002 12:49
> To: 	scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: 	Re: [SLUG] Formating Zip disc's
> 
> On Thursday 31 October 2002 9:47 am, you wrote:
> > I dont have an answer for you, but you could try searching on
> > groups.google.com or google.com/linux .
> >
> > Also, linuxquestions.org sometimes has the answer im looking for.
> 
>  Cheers Jamie,
> 
> Gav came up trumps for me last night in the irc meeting.
> 
> The answer I was looking for was;
> 
> mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda4  and
> 
> mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda4
> 
I assume that this is the case for floppies and such then? In all the time I
have used linux I have never formatted a floppy.

Jamie

> Many thanks,
> 
> Al
> 
> 
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