[ltp] Quick Question

Theodore Ts'o linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:49:50 -0400


On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:02:42PM -0300, Adam Southerland wrote:
> Why is it that if I run 'mke2fs /dev/fd0' my system hangs for a few minutes 
> then tells me:
> /dev/fd0: Input/output error

Mke2fs only puts an ext2 filesystem on the floppy disk.  It doesn't do
a low-level format of the floppy disk.  In order to do this, use the
fdformat program.

					- Ted