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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!news From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How to format UNIX floppies under 386BSD Date: 1 Oct 1992 21:35:48 -0500 Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1agci4INN346@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> References: <1992Sep24.142441.17045@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1a7hksINNhfe@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Sep29.165042.1@vax.sonoma.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: maverick.ksu.ksu.edu In <1992Sep29.165042.1@vax.sonoma.edu> levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes: >> MS-DOS always >> want's to reformat the entire disk in these cases. mformat will do the >> job in about 5-10 seconds. >well, there is format /q in MSDOS which just overwrites the root directory. Try that with a disk that's been stomped on with rawwrite or tar from 386BSD. Since the format command can't figure out what format the disk is in it figures that it *has* to format the entire disk, regardless of what you tell it. You are just a dumb user and of course, it knows better. ++Brett;