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Revision as of 05:30, 10 November 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 - For FAT12/FAT16/FAT32
- reiserfsprogs - For ReiserFS (Note: not available in Alpine repositories yet)
- e2fsprogs - For ext3/ext4
- xfsprogs - For XFS
- jfsutils - For JFS
- ntfs-3g - For NTFS (Note: ntfs-3g is a FUSE driver)
- btrfs-progs - For BTRFS
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
btrfs-progs
mkfs.btrfs /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
fdisk /dev/hdc