| FDFORMAT(1) | General Commands Manual | FDFORMAT(1) |
fdformat —
fdformat |
[-n] [-B
nbps] [-C
ncyl] [-F
fillbyte] [-f
device] [-G
gaplen] [-I
interleave] [-P
stepspercyl] [-S
nspt] [-T
ntrk] [-t
type] [-X
xfer_rate] |
fdformat utility formats a floppy diskette. With no
arguments, it formats the default floppy device with the default density
parameters (as provided by the floppy diskette device driver).
As the each track of the floppy diskette is formatted, it is read to verify the format was successful.
The fdformat utility does not create a
filesystem of any kind. Use tools like
newfs(8),
newfs_msdos(8), or
mformat(1) (part of the
pkgsrc/sysutils/mtools package) depending on what filesystem type you want
to use on the floppy disk to do so.
Available command-line flags are:
-f
device-t
type-n-B
nbps-S
nspt-T
ntrk-C
ncyl-P
stepspercyl-G
gaplen-F
fillbyte-X
xfer_rate-I
interleavefdformat utility appeared in NetBSD
1.3.
| July 22, 2006 | NetBSD 9.1 |