Filesystems: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 07:44, 28 March 2012

Documentation how to use the Alpine distro to format HD/Floppy/Other.

Alpine has multiple packages to use when formatting. 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 you format using functions from:

mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0

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

In our case we wanted to format the floppy (/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

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-== User Documentation ==
+[[Category:Storage]]
 Documentation how to use the Alpine distro to format HD/Floppy/Other.
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 * jfsutils
 * ntfsprogs
-'''Note:''' If you want to know what the package contains you can see some interesting information by entering the next command(s)
-  apk_info -f {yourpackage}
-  apk_info -fL {yourpackage}
 In our example we want to format the floppy as vfat.
-  apk_add dosfstools
+{{Cmd|apk add dosfstools}}
 == Format ==
-If you like to format the floppy as '''vfat''':
+Here are some examples on how you format using functions from:
-  mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0
-If you like to format the floppy as '''msdos''':
+=== dosfstools ===
-  mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0
+{{Cmd|mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0}}
+=== e2fsprogs ===
+{{Cmd|mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0
+mkfs.ext3 /dev/fd0}}
 == Other devices ==
 In our case we wanted to format the floppy (/dev/fd0). You can change /dev/fd0 to the device you want to format.
 == Partitions ==
-Just a note on HD's. You might need to change/make a partition table on a HD you like to format. In that case you can use:
+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 ===
+{{Cmd|fdisk /dev/hdc}}