format(1M)
format --
format floppy disk tracks
Synopsis
/bin/format [-qvVE] [-f first] [-l last] [-i interleave] device[t]
Description
The format command
formats floppy disks.
Unless otherwise
specified, formatting starts at track 0 and continues until an error
is returned at the end of a partition.
Command options
The -f and -l options specify the first and last track to be formatted.
The default interleave of 1 may be modified by using
the -i option.
device must specify a raw (character) floppy device.
The t indicates the entire disk.
Absence of this letter indicates that the first track
of the diskette cannot be accessed.
- -q
-
Quiet mode.
Perform the floppy disk format operation, but do not
report status, inquiry, or error messages.
- -v
-
Verbose mode (always true).
- -V
-
Verify.
After tracks are formatted, a random sector is chosen
and a write of test data is done into it.
The sector is then read back
and a comparison is made.
- -E
-
exhaustive verify. Every sector is verified by write/read/compare.
Files
/dev/rdsk/
raw device for partition to be formatted
References
fd(7)
30 January 1998
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