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