Filesystems

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

Install

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

dosfstools

mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0

e2fsprogs

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 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