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- Short: Quick format for FFS disks
- Author: thomas-rapp@web.de (Thomas Rapp)
- Uploader: thomas-rapp@web.de (Thomas Rapp)
- Type: disk/misc
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- Qformat writes a FFS root block onto the disk, regardless
- of the filesystem that is installed for it. This is meant
- for multi purpose filesystems (like XFS) that cannot format
- new media.
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- Usage
- =====
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- Qformat can only be used from Shell.
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- Parameters
- ==========
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- DEVICE=DRIVE/A The device name to format.
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- NAME/K/A The name given to the disk after format.
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- TYPE/K/N Dostype used to format:
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- 0 = Old file system
- 1 = FastFileSystem
- 2 = Old file system International
- 3 = FastFileSystem International
- 4 = Old file system International Directory cache
- 5 = FastFileSystem International Directory cache
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- BOOT/S Write a boot block to the disk. Only useful for
- floppy disks.
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- VALIDATE/S Set the bitmap flag to invalid so the disk will be validated.
- This ensures that the bitmap is correct afterwards.
- Doesn't work with XFS because XFS cannot validate a disk.
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- INFO/S Give some information about Qformat's work. (For debug only)
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- Example
- =======
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- qformat drive file0: name empty boot
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- ; Create a bootable ADF file in drive FILE0
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