Creating floppy disk images in Linux

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Published: 24 March 2021

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@misc { npapadopoulos_creating_floppy_disk_images_in_linux,
  author = "Nikolaos Papadopoulos",
  title = "Creating floppy disk images in Linux",
  howpublished = "\url{https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2021/03/24/creating-floppy-disk-images}",
  month = "03",
  year = "2021",
}

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[1] N. Papadopoulos, "Creating floppy disk images in Linux",
    https://www.4rknova.com, 2021. [Online].
    Available: \url{https://www.4rknova.com/blog/2021/03/24/creating-floppy-disk-images}.
    [Accessed: 01-03-2025].

The code snippet below shows how to create, format and mount a 1.44MB floppy disk image file, and then write files into it.

$ dd bs=512 count=2880 if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img
$ sudo mkfs.msdos floppy.img
$ sudo mount -o loop image.img /media/floppy/
$ cp ./files/* /media/floppy
$ sudo umount /media/floppy/

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