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In our case we | In our case we want to format a floppy disk. (/dev/fd0) You can change /dev/fd0 to the device you want to format. | ||
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Revision as of 02:29, 4 July 2021
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.
- dosfstools
- reiserfsprogs
- e2fsprogs
- xfsprogs
- jfsutils
- ntfsprogs
In our example we want to format the floppy as vfat.
apk add dosfstools
Format
Here are some examples on how to use the formatting tools:
dosfstools
mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0
e2fsprogs
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
Just a note on HDs. You might need to change/make a partition table on a HD you like to format. In that case you can use:
fdisk
fdisk /dev/hdc