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First use the 'dtype' command to determine the type of disk.
If the disk is a tar or cpio disk then you do not need to mount it in order to read the contents.
You can look at /etc/default/tar for a list of specific disk types.
tar xv6 extracts tar files from a 1.44mb floppy in drive 0.
If it is a unix1k file system, then you need to mount it using
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
fdformat
FDFORMAT(8) Linux Programmer's Manual FDFORMAT(8)
NAME
fdformat - Low-level formats a floppy disk
SYNOPSIS
fdformat [ -n ] device
DESCRIPTION
fdformat does a low level format on a floppy disk. device is usually one of the following (for floppy devices, the major = 2, and the
minor is shown for informational purposes only):
/dev/fd0d360 (minor = 4)
/dev/fd0h1200 (minor = 8)
/dev/fd0D360 (minor = 12)
/dev/fd0H360 (minor = 12)
/dev/fd0D720 (minor = 16)
/dev/fd0H720 (minor = 16)
/dev/fd0h360 (minor = 20)
/dev/fd0h720 (minor = 24)
/dev/fd0H1440 (minor = 28)
/dev/fd1d360 (minor = 5)
/dev/fd1h1200 (minor = 9)
/dev/fd1D360 (minor = 13)
/dev/fd1H360 (minor = 13)
/dev/fd1D720 (minor = 17)
/dev/fd1H720 (minor = 17)
/dev/fd1h360 (minor = 21)
/dev/fd1h720 (minor = 25)
/dev/fd1H1440 (minor = 29)
The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work with fdformat when a non-standard format is being used, or if the for-
mat has not been autodetected earlier. In this case, use setfdprm(8) to load the disk parameters.
OPTIONS
-n No verify. This option will disable the verification that is performed after the format.
SEE ALSO
fd(4), setfdprm(8), mkfs(8), emkfs(8)
AUTHOR
Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
Linux 0.99 1 February 1993 FDFORMAT(8)