Check the man page for mkfs.

mkfs -t vfat /dev/fd0

will format floppy disk drive A:  (someone correct me if I am wrong)

Alan

On Tuesday 30 April 2002 09:45 pm, you wrote:
> um...how  do I format a vfat filesystem in linux??
>
> thx...chase
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