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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.

btrfs-progs - For Btrfs
dosfstools - For FAT12/FAT16/FAT32
e2fsprogs - For ext3/ext4
f2fs-tools - For F2FS
jfsutils - For JFS
ntfs-3g - For NTFS (Note: ntfs-3g is a FUSE driver)
xfsprogs - For XFS

Format

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

Note: /dev/sda1 is used as a example

btrfs-progs

# mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda1

dosfstools

# mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1

e2fsprogs

# mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1

# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

f2fs-tools

# mkfs.f2fs /dev/sda1

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/sda

cfdisk

# cfdisk /dev/sda