wipefs: add --lock and LOCK_BLOCK_DEVICE

[thirdparty/util-linux.git] / disk-utils / fdformat.8

diff --git a/disk-utils/fdformat.8 b/disk-utils/fdformat.8
index 03514bef8a74aeeb1c290ce3c2a074846910b533..44b494dbb718c4385140cd1506199bc61e4ae4c0 100644 (file)
--- a/disk-utils/fdformat.8
+++ b/disk-utils/fdformat.8
@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
 .\" Copyright 1992, 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
-.TH FDFORMAT 8 "1 February 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FDFORMAT 8 "July 2014" "util-linux" "System Administration"
 .SH NAME
-fdformat \- Low-level formats a floppy disk
+fdformat \- low-level format a floppy disk
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B fdformat
-.B "[ \-n ]"
-device
+.RI [options] " device"
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .B fdformat
-does a low level format on a floppy disk.
+does a low-level format on a floppy disk.
 .I device
-is usually one of the following (for floppy devices, the major = 2, and the
+is usually one of the following (for floppy devices the major = 2, and the
 minor is shown for informational purposes only):
 .sp
 .nf
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ minor is shown for informational purposes only):
 /dev/fd0h360  (minor = 20)
 /dev/fd0h720  (minor = 24)
 /dev/fd0H1440 (minor = 28)
-
+.PP
 /dev/fd1d360  (minor = 5)
 /dev/fd1h1200 (minor = 9)
 /dev/fd1D360  (minor = 13)
@@ -37,26 +36,39 @@ minor is shown for informational purposes only):
 /dev/fd1H1440 (minor = 29)
 .RE
 .fi
-
+.PP
 The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work with
 .B fdformat
 when a non-standard format is being used, or if the format has not been
 autodetected earlier.  In this case, use
 .BR setfdprm (8)
 to load the disk parameters.
-
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
-.B \-n
-No verify.  This option will disable the verification that is performed
-after the format.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-from\fR \fIN\fR
+Start at the track \fIN\fR (default is 0).
+.TP
+\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-to\fR \fIN\fR
+Stop at the track \fIN\fR.
+.TP
+\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-repair\fR \fIN\fR
+Try to repair tracks failed during the verification (max \fIN\fR retries).
+.TP
+\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-no\-verify\fR
+Skip the verification that is normally performed after the formatting.
+.TP
+\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
+Display version information and exit.
+.TP
+\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
+Display help text and exit.
+.SH AUTHORS
+Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR fd (4),
-.BR setfdprm (8),
+.BR emkfs (8),
 .BR mkfs (8),
-.BR emkfs (8)
-.SH AUTHOR
-Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
+.BR setfdprm (8)
 .SH AVAILABILITY
-The fdformat command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
-ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
+The fdformat command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
+https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.