Formatting disk such that it works on Dos

Linux and Unix-Like Red Hat
1

Hi,

I need to format a disk in Linux such that the disk works on DOS machine.

Regards
Rochit

2

Is this a hard disk or a floppy disk? Do you want to format the whole disk for DOS or just a single partition?

3

In short,

mkfs -t fat32 /dev/path/to/block/device