disk-utils: Add reference to ufiformat(8)

fdformat(8) doesn't handle USB floppy disk drives. As legacy floppy
disk drives have become a scarce resource it would be nice to point
those poor souls trying to format their floppy disks to a utility that
doesn't throw "Invalid argument" at them.

Signed-off-by: Wojtek Kaniewski <wojtekka@toxygen.net>
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.\" Copyright 1992, 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.TH FDFORMAT 8 "July 2014" "util-linux" "System Administration"
.TH FDFORMAT 8 "June 2020" "util-linux" "System Administration"
.SH NAME
fdformat \- low-level format a floppy disk
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -62,13 +62,18 @@ Display version information and exit.
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Display help text and exit.
.SH NOTES
This utility does not handle USB floppy disk drives. Use
.BR ufiformat (8)
instead.
.SH AUTHORS
Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR fd (4),
.BR emkfs (8),
.BR mkfs (8),
.BR setfdprm (8)
.BR setfdprm (8),
.BR ufiformat (8)
.SH AVAILABILITY
The fdformat command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.