[Nottingham] Another quick question...

Martin Garton martin at wrasse.demon.co.uk
Wed Dec 22 17:00:48 GMT 2004


On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Jason Atkin wrote:

> While I'm at it... do you know how to 'unformat' a floppy?

You could try something silly like:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k count=1

(I havent tried that, but it might work)

Alternatively if anyone knows how a FAT fs is identified you could just dd 
zeros over that part.  Anyone know how to identift a FAT fs?

-- 
Martin.





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