Re: [tlug] fdformat

[Matt Doughty <mdoughty@example.com>]

man mkfs

--Matt
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 07:48:11PM +0900, hatsuhiro wrote:
> Tell me how to format an ext2 filesystem on a floppy disk. I tried
> formatting as shown below but couldn't mount /dev/fd0. Why not? It slipped
> from my memory though I did it well....
> 
> fdformat /dev/fd0h1440
> ( ...... omitted ......)
> Formatting . . .  done
> Verifying . . . done
> oops:~# mount /dev/fd0h1440 /mnt
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> oops:~# mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt
> mount: wrong fs type. bad option,bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
>            or too many mounted file systems
> oops:~#
> 
> Hoshino
>