How might one (re)format a floppy disks?
In the simplest case where you have a standard 1.44MB floppy and you want to put a basic DOS filesystem on it (so you can read the disk on a windows machine) just put the disk in the drive and type: @: formatfd This command is locally aliased to run: /bin/fdformat /dev/fd0H1440; mformat a: read on to find out what this means. If you only put tar files on floppy diskettes then the “high level” format described below is irrelevant. It neither helps nor hurts to create it. You must, however, be sure that your diskette has a low-level format. Instructions for creating a low-level format are given below. But if you wanna save time… just run @: formatfd like everyone else.
