.\" Copyright 1992, 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
-.TH FDFORMAT 8 "July 2011" "util-linux" "System Administration"
+.TH FDFORMAT 8 "July 2014" "util-linux" "System Administration"
.SH NAME
fdformat \- low-level format a floppy disk
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B fdformat
-.RI [ options ] " device"
+.RI [options] " device"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B fdformat
does a low-level format on a floppy disk.
to load the disk parameters.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
+\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
-Output version information and exit.
+Display version information and exit.
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
-Display help and exit.
+Display help text and exit.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR fd (4),
-.BR setfdprm (8),
+.BR emkfs (8),
.BR mkfs (8),
-.BR emkfs (8)
+.BR setfdprm (8)
.SH AUTHOR
Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
.SH AVAILABILITY
The fdformat command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
-ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
+https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.