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