Do anyone has an experience with a floppy?

[bbfuller]

Just tried that again with an older MX laptop and the one I tried earlier.

Both are working properly now.

[r-tea]

I started an MXLinux laptop and took the floppy drive to it.

It happily read both of the disks I had been playing with.

When I tried writing another file to the floppy (1.3MB free, 81.6KB test file, I got the message:

Access Denied
Could not write to /media/bbfuller/disk/<filename here>

Looks like you're not alone.

Thank you for your support. I am pretty sure that the floppy disk (disks) are ok. I can read them all, but I can't write them.
BTW, how to delete, erease, format the whole floppy disk and create new partition, for example an ext4 one?

[r-tea]

Can anyone provide me the "fdformat" command file? I suspect there is something wrong with my floppy drive because it is for sure mounted with rw parameter.

[ghunter]

try changing to wiki

https://wiki.debian.org/Floppy

However it thinks you need to be a member of the group floppy.....and so the non-root command

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groups

must contain string floppy.

you can also instead of making yourself a member of that group...change user to users......as user actually means root user

[Gabriel_M]

To format a floppy disk, it is convenient to act as root and create an ext2 file system, because ext3 is a 'journaling' type system and floppy disks do not have this feature, you can try with:

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exec sudo -i
mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0

This is assuming that the floppy drive is /dev/fd0

[manyroads]

Yep, I used floppies from the early 1980s to mid 1990s.