[NTLUG:Discuss] problem w/ copying to a floppy drive

[Steve Baker]

Fred James wrote:
> 
> Gosh, you stopped me there.  Doesn't everything have to have a file
> system?  Except maybe stuff like dd - can dd work without a file system?

You can access drives as raw character devices - it's just like there
is one big file called /dev/fd0.  Just about anything you could do to
a file, you can do to /dev/fd0.

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