On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:03:03AM -0500, Darryl N . Grant wrote: > Whenever I format a floppy, I use mke2fs and then tell the mount point. > > Example: mke2fs /mnt
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but you shouldn't format mounted drives. You can only mount when there *is* a filesytem, and creating a filesystem after the mount might severely derange kernel buffers. -- groetjes, carel
