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[[Category:Storage]]
Documentation how to use the Alpine distro to format HD/Floppy/Other.

== Install ==
Alpine has multiple storage media formatting packages available. Different packages/programs are used to format different types of filesystems.
* {{Pkg|dosfstools}} - For FAT12/FAT16/FAT32
* reiserfsprogs - For ReiserFS (Note: not available in Alpine repositories yet)
* {{Pkg|e2fsprogs}} - For ext3/ext4
* {{Pkg|xfsprogs}} - For XFS
* {{Pkg|jfsutils}} - For JFS
* {{Pkg|ntfs-3g}} - For NTFS (Note: ntfs-3g is a FUSE driver)

In our example we want to format the floppy as vfat.
{{Cmd|apk add dosfstools}}

== Format ==
Here are some examples on how to use the formatting tools:

=== dosfstools ===
{{Cmd|mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0}}

=== e2fsprogs ===
{{Cmd|mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0
mkfs.ext3 /dev/fd0}}

== Other devices ==
In our case we want to format a floppy disk. (/dev/fd0) You can change /dev/fd0 to the device you want to format.

== Partitions ==
If you need to change or make a partition table on a Hard Drive you want to format, you can use:

=== fdisk ===
{{Cmd|fdisk /dev/hdc}}