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Examples
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   In all the examples of this section, we assume that drive 0 is a 3
1/2 and drive 1 a 5 1/4.

   The following example shows how to format a 1440K disk in drive 0:
     superformat /dev/fd0 hd

   The following example shows how to format a 1200K disk in drive 1:
     superformat /dev/fd1 hd

   The following example shows how to format a 1440K disk in drive 1:
     superformat /dev/fd1 hd sect=18

   The following example shows how to format a 720K disk in drive 0:
     superformat /dev/fd0 dd

   The following example shows how to format a 1743K disk in drive 0 (83
cylinders times 21 sectors):
     superformat /dev/fd0 sect=21 cyl=83

   The following example shows how to format a 1992K disk in drive 0 (83
cylinders times 2 heads times 12 KB per track)
     superformat /dev/fd0 tracksize=12KB cyl=83 mss

   The following example shows how to format a 1840K disk in drive 0. It
will have 5 2048-byte sectors, one 1024-byte sector, and one 512-byte
sector per track:
     superformat /dev/fd0 tracksize=23b mss 2m ssize=2KB

   All these formats can be autodetected by mtools, using the floppy
driver's default settings.