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NAME

       fdformat - Low-level formats a floppy disk

SYNOPSIS

       fdformat [-n] device

DESCRIPTION

       fdformat  does  a low level format on a floppy disk.  device is usually
       one of the following (for floppy devices, the major = 2, and the  minor
       is shown for informational purposes only):

              /dev/fd0d360  (minor = 4)
              /dev/fd0h1200 (minor = 8)
              /dev/fd0D360  (minor = 12)
              /dev/fd0H360  (minor = 12)
              /dev/fd0D720  (minor = 16)
              /dev/fd0H720  (minor = 16)
              /dev/fd0h360  (minor = 20)
              /dev/fd0h720  (minor = 24)
              /dev/fd0H1440 (minor = 28)

              /dev/fd1d360  (minor = 5)
              /dev/fd1h1200 (minor = 9)
              /dev/fd1D360  (minor = 13)
              /dev/fd1H360  (minor = 13)
              /dev/fd1D720  (minor = 17)
              /dev/fd1H720  (minor = 17)
              /dev/fd1h360  (minor = 21)
              /dev/fd1h720  (minor = 25)
              /dev/fd1H1440 (minor = 29)

       The  generic  floppy  devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work
       with fdformat when a non-standard format  is  being  used,  or  if  the
       format   has   not  been  autodetected  earlier.   In  this  case,  use
       setfdprm(8) to load the disk parameters.

OPTIONS

       -n     No verify.  This option will disable the  verification  that  is
              performed after the format.

SEE ALSO

       fd(4), setfdprm(8), mkfs(8), emkfs(8)

AUTHOR

       Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)

AVAILABILITY

       The  fdformat  command  is  part  of  the  util-linux-ng package and is
       available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.