Revision as of 18:56, 28 December 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.

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:

Note: /dev/sda is a example device name

mkfs.vfat /dev/sda

mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda

mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda

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

fdisk /dev/sda

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-[[Category:Storage]]
 Documentation how to use the Alpine distro to format HD/Floppy/Other.
-== Install ==
+= Install =
 Alpine has multiple storage media formatting packages available. Different packages/programs are used to format different types of filesystems.
 * {{Pkg|btrfs-progs}} - For BTRFS
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 {{Cmd|apk add dosfstools}}
-== Format ==
+= Format =
 Here are some examples on how to use the formatting tools:
+{{Note|'''/dev/sda''' is a example device name}}
 === dosfstools ===
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 {{Cmd|mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda}}
-== 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 ==
+= 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}}
+{{Cmd|fdisk /dev/sda}}
+[[Category:Storage]]