Formatting disk such that it works on Dos

 
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# 1  
Old 06-11-2009
Formatting disk such that it works on Dos

Hi,

I need to format a disk in Linux such that the disk works on DOS machine.

Regards
Rochit
# 2  
Old 06-12-2009
Is this a hard disk or a floppy disk? Do you want to format the whole disk for DOS or just a single partition?
# 3  
Old 06-12-2009
In short,

mkfs -t fat32 /dev/path/to/block/device
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