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Manpages FDFORMATSection: Linux Programmer's Manual (8)Updated: 1 February 1993 Index Return to Main Contents NAMEfdformat - Low-level formats a floppy diskSYNOPSISfdformat [ -n ] deviceDESCRIPTIONfdformat does a low level format on a floppy disk. device is usually one of the following (for floppy devices, the major = 2, and the minor is shown for informational purposes only):
The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work with fdformat when a non-standard format is being used, or if the format has not been autodetected earlier. In this case, use setfdprm(8) to load the disk parameters. OPTIONS
SEE ALSOfd(4), setfdprm(8), mkfs(8), emkfs(8)AUTHORWerner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
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