On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 1:46 PM Curt <cu...@free.fr> 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:
Thanks! This worked well, all the mtools utilities now works with the USB drive. I wonder when the GNU people will understand that no one wants their enforced info files and start write actual manual pages for the tools. Normally the manual pages has a "See Also" section, but mformat does not mention the configuration file or refers to the mtools manual page which does.
