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1 | .\" Copyright 1992, 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
| 2 | .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License | |
| 98aa9c81 | 3 | .TH FDFORMAT 8 "June 2020" "util-linux" "System Administration" |
| 6dbe3af9 | 4 | .SH NAME |
| 232dc924 | 5 | fdformat \- low-level format a floppy disk |
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6 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 7 | .B fdformat | |
| f49ccec2 | 8 | .RI [options] " device" |
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9 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 10 | .B fdformat | |
| 449a215f | 11 | does a low-level format on a floppy disk. |
| 6dbe3af9 | 12 | .I device |
| 449a215f | 13 | is usually one of the following (for floppy devices the major = 2, and the |
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14 | minor is shown for informational purposes only): |
| 15 | .sp | |
| 16 | .nf | |
| 17 | .RS | |
| 18 | /dev/fd0d360 (minor = 4) | |
| 19 | /dev/fd0h1200 (minor = 8) | |
| 20 | /dev/fd0D360 (minor = 12) | |
| 21 | /dev/fd0H360 (minor = 12) | |
| 22 | /dev/fd0D720 (minor = 16) | |
| 23 | /dev/fd0H720 (minor = 16) | |
| 24 | /dev/fd0h360 (minor = 20) | |
| 25 | /dev/fd0h720 (minor = 24) | |
| 26 | /dev/fd0H1440 (minor = 28) | |
| 99ba55ef | 27 | .PP |
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28 | /dev/fd1d360 (minor = 5) |
| 29 | /dev/fd1h1200 (minor = 9) | |
| 30 | /dev/fd1D360 (minor = 13) | |
| 31 | /dev/fd1H360 (minor = 13) | |
| 32 | /dev/fd1D720 (minor = 17) | |
| 33 | /dev/fd1H720 (minor = 17) | |
| 34 | /dev/fd1h360 (minor = 21) | |
| 35 | /dev/fd1h720 (minor = 25) | |
| 36 | /dev/fd1H1440 (minor = 29) | |
| 37 | .RE | |
| 38 | .fi | |
| 99ba55ef | 39 | .PP |
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40 | The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work with |
| 41 | .B fdformat | |
| 42 | when a non-standard format is being used, or if the format has not been | |
| 43 | autodetected earlier. In this case, use | |
| 44 | .BR setfdprm (8) | |
| 45 | to load the disk parameters. | |
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46 | .SH OPTIONS |
| 47 | .TP | |
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48 | \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-from\fR \fIN\fR |
| 49 | Start at the track \fIN\fR (default is 0). | |
| 50 | .TP | |
| 51 | \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-to\fR \fIN\fR | |
| 0cbdf6e2 | 52 | Stop at the track \fIN\fR. |
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53 | .TP |
| 54 | \fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-repair\fR \fIN\fR | |
| 55 | Try to repair tracks failed during the verification (max \fIN\fR retries). | |
| 56 | .TP | |
| b06c1ca6 | 57 | \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-no\-verify\fR |
| 449a215f | 58 | Skip the verification that is normally performed after the formatting. |
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59 | .TP |
| 60 | \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR | |
| b4362b6f | 61 | Display version information and exit. |
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62 | .TP |
| 63 | \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR | |
| b4362b6f | 64 | Display help text and exit. |
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65 | .SH NOTES |
| 66 | This utility does not handle USB floppy disk drives. Use | |
| 67 | .BR ufiformat (8) | |
| 68 | instead. | |
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69 | .SH AUTHORS |
| 70 | Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch) | |
| 5a829806 | 71 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 6dbe3af9 | 72 | .BR fd (4), |
| f053ff1e | 73 | .BR emkfs (8), |
| 6dbe3af9 | 74 | .BR mkfs (8), |
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75 | .BR setfdprm (8), |
| 76 | .BR ufiformat (8) | |
| 86d62711 | 77 | .SH AVAILABILITY |
| 601d12fb | 78 | The fdformat command is part of the util-linux package and is available from |
| d673b74e | 79 | https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |