From 98aa9c815a3e75cb9b3c31e2864f851ff00f43b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wojtek Kaniewski Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 21:15:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- disk-utils/fdformat.8 | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/disk-utils/fdformat.8 b/disk-utils/fdformat.8 index 44b494dbb..8453a5a27 100644 --- a/disk-utils/fdformat.8 +++ b/disk-utils/fdformat.8 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" 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/.