On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:34:14PM -0500, Eric Reischer wrote: > If you mean you want to erase every last cluster on the disk, then you can > use the following command to do that, no matter what type of drive it is: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 count=<how far you want to go......omit to > clear whole disk>
this only works if the floppy is already low level formatted and that formatting is not corrupt. formatting != filesystem > This should essentially create a floppy disk with absolutely no information > on it; not even a boot sector. From there you can format as usual to > create a usable filesystem on the disk. this will usually work since floppies are usually already formatted, but if you have a corrupted floppy you can sometimes recover it by low level formatting it and then creating a new filesystem. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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