Tag: floppy disk

Jul/12

Mounting LVM Using Ubuntu Live CD

Filed Under Linux at 2nd July 2012 0:00 by Danny

Tags: floppy disk, Gparted, HDD, logical volume, LVM, Ubuntu

Overview My system died recently and I needed to access the data on the hard drives. I had two 1TB drives in a logical volume which I needed to pull data off of. Luckily the drivers were in tact. Live … Continue reading →

Dec/08

Formatting A Floppy Disk In Linux

Filed Under Linux at 8th December 2008 20:24 by Danny

Tags: DOS, ext, file, Floppy, floppy disk, format, Formatting, Linux, low level format, system, vfat

Recently I ran into trouble with an unformatted floppy disk (it was virtual but none the less). It refused to mount because it did not have a valid file system and under Linux you need to specify or at least … Continue reading →