66 lines
1.7 KiB
Groff
66 lines
1.7 KiB
Groff
.\" 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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.TH FDFORMAT 8 "July 2011" "util-linux" "System Administration"
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.SH NAME
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fdformat \- low-level format a floppy disk
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B fdformat
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.RI [ options ] " device"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B fdformat
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does a low-level format on a floppy disk.
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.I device
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is usually one of the following (for floppy devices the major = 2, and the
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minor is shown for informational purposes only):
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.sp
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.nf
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.RS
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/dev/fd0d360 (minor = 4)
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/dev/fd0h1200 (minor = 8)
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/dev/fd0D360 (minor = 12)
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/dev/fd0H360 (minor = 12)
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/dev/fd0D720 (minor = 16)
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/dev/fd0H720 (minor = 16)
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/dev/fd0h360 (minor = 20)
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/dev/fd0h720 (minor = 24)
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/dev/fd0H1440 (minor = 28)
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.PP
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/dev/fd1d360 (minor = 5)
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/dev/fd1h1200 (minor = 9)
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/dev/fd1D360 (minor = 13)
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/dev/fd1H360 (minor = 13)
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/dev/fd1D720 (minor = 17)
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/dev/fd1H720 (minor = 17)
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/dev/fd1h360 (minor = 21)
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/dev/fd1h720 (minor = 25)
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/dev/fd1H1440 (minor = 29)
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.RE
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.fi
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.PP
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The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work with
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.B fdformat
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when a non-standard format is being used, or if the format has not been
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autodetected earlier. In this case, use
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.BR setfdprm (8)
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to load the disk parameters.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-no-verify\fR
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Skip the verification that is normally performed after the formatting.
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.TP
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\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
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Display version information and exit.
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.TP
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\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
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Display help text and exit.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR fd (4),
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.BR setfdprm (8),
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.BR mkfs (8),
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.BR emkfs (8)
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.SH AUTHOR
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Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
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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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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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