gfloppy(1)

gfloppy1

A simple floppy formatter for the gnome

Usage

gfloppy

or right click on the floppy icon on your desktop and select Floppy Formatter

Overview

gfloppy is a simple floppy formatter for Linux. It supports the DOS format and the ext2 file system. In order to create DOS floppies you need to have the mtools package installed.

For full documentation see the Floppy Formatter online help.

Options

In addition to the standard GNOME options gfloppy supports the following one.

--device=DEVICE

The device to format (instead of /dev/floppy/0or/dev/fd0).

Releases

5 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1–5.0

--device since Debian 3.0 (Woody).

Author

Floppy Formatter was written by Jonathan Blandford (<[email protected]>).

This manual page was written by Jochen Voss <[email protected]>.

From gnome-utils 2.20.0.1-3 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.