Filesystems

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.

In our example we want to format the floppy as vfat.

apk add dosfstools

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

mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0

mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0 mkfs.ext3 /dev/fd0

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

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 /dev/hdc