\fBKfloppy Formatter\fP is a utility that provides a straightforward graphical means to format 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.
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Starting \fBKfloppy\fP opens a single window by which the user may choose appropriate settings and control the formatting process.
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\fBCaution\fP
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Make sure that your floppy disk is not mounted. \fBKfloppy\fP cannot format a mounted floppy disk.
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\fBKfloppy\fP offers the following settings for floppy size:
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\- 3.5" 1.44MB
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\- 3.5" 720KB
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\- 5.25" 1.2MB
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\- 5.25" 360KB
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\- Auto-Detect
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\fBNote\fP
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The 800KB disk format used by Mac floppy drives cannot be supported on PC floppy drives since they are not capable of formatting disks in that fashion.
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\fBKfloppy\fP supports the file systems DOS, ext2 and Minix.
This manual page was written by Holger Hartmann <Holger_Hartmann@gmx.de> for the Debian Project, but may be used by others. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
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On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common\-licenses/GPL.