Curt wrote: > On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson <pipat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk > > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy. > > Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it > > appears that I can not supply a device name, just "emulated names" > > like A: which are then translated to /dev/fd0 etc. > > It seems you're supposed to use '/etc/mtools.conf' for this kind of > thing. > > drive m: file="/dev/sdc" > > Then: > > mformat m: > > This from a very cursory examination of the problem on the internets.
Also doable: mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc -dsr-
