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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:26:57 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        DJN92546@aol.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Floppy Disk Formatting
Message-ID:  <20030729005657.GC45069@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <16b.21f42231.2c56b7de@aol.com>
References:  <16b.21f42231.2c56b7de@aol.com>

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On Monday, 28 July 2003 at 13:31:10 -0400, DJN92546@aol.com wrote:
> We have received a file on a floppy disk from a client.  When we put it into
> the drive it says that disk has not been formatted.  We  already read from the
> disk and transferred the file to another system earlier.  Why, after we have
> already used the file on the floppy disk does it now tell us it is not
> formatted.  We need to open the file to print out some information from the original
> information on the disk.  We do get a question that asks if we want to format
> the disk now.  Can we say Yes to that?  Or should we say No?  If we say yes,
> what will it do to the disk?

If you say yes, it will destroy all data on the disk.

Does this question have anything to do with FreeBSD?

Greg
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