On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, SOTL wrote:
> I need to format a disk to ext2.
>
> I thought the command for this was mkfs -t ext2 /dev/fd0
>
> But! I get an error message mkfs command not found in bash.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Is /sbin (where mkfs usually is) in $PATH? You probably won't be able to
format the disk unless you're root (or have write access to /dev/fd0). Try
"/sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0". You might try throwing "-m 0 -N 64" in there.
-m is % reserved for root (default 5%), -N is # inodes (default 184).
More inodes = more files possible, but inodes take up space (120 inodes is
about 15 KB, and how many files are you going to put on a floppy anyhow?).
"man mkfs.ext2" is informative.
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