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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 | |
| 3 | .TH FDFORMAT 8 "1 February 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual" | |
| 4 | .SH NAME | |
| 5 | fdformat \- Low-level formats a floppy disk | |
| 6 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 7 | .B fdformat | |
| 8 | .B "[ \-n ]" | |
| 9 | device | |
| 10 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 11 | .B fdformat | |
| 12 | does a low level format on a floppy disk. | |
| 13 | .I device | |
| 14 | is usually one of the following (for floppy devices, the major = 2, and the | |
| 15 | minor is shown for informational purposes only): | |
| 16 | .sp | |
| 17 | .nf | |
| 18 | .RS | |
| 19 | /dev/fd0d360 (minor = 4) | |
| 20 | /dev/fd0h1200 (minor = 8) | |
| 21 | /dev/fd0D360 (minor = 12) | |
| 22 | /dev/fd0H360 (minor = 12) | |
| 23 | /dev/fd0D720 (minor = 16) | |
| 24 | /dev/fd0H720 (minor = 16) | |
| 25 | /dev/fd0h360 (minor = 20) | |
| 26 | /dev/fd0h720 (minor = 24) | |
| 27 | /dev/fd0H1440 (minor = 28) | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | /dev/fd1d360 (minor = 5) | |
| 30 | /dev/fd1h1200 (minor = 9) | |
| 31 | /dev/fd1D360 (minor = 13) | |
| 32 | /dev/fd1H360 (minor = 13) | |
| 33 | /dev/fd1D720 (minor = 17) | |
| 34 | /dev/fd1H720 (minor = 17) | |
| 35 | /dev/fd1h360 (minor = 21) | |
| 36 | /dev/fd1h720 (minor = 25) | |
| 37 | /dev/fd1H1440 (minor = 29) | |
| 38 | .RE | |
| 39 | .fi | |
| 40 | ||
| 41 | The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work with | |
| 42 | .B fdformat | |
| 43 | when a non-standard format is being used, or if the format has not been | |
| 44 | autodetected earlier. In this case, use | |
| 45 | .BR setfdprm (8) | |
| 46 | to load the disk parameters. | |
| 47 | ||
| 48 | .SH OPTIONS | |
| 49 | .TP | |
| 50 | .B \-n | |
| 51 | No verify. This option will disable the verification that is performed | |
| 52 | after the format. | |
| 53 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 54 | .BR fd (4), | |
| 55 | .BR setfdprm (8), | |
| 56 | .BR mkfs (8), | |
| 57 | .BR emkfs (8) | |
| 58 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 59 | Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch) |