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Notes: UNIX file
Names: »format.8«
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└─⟦this⟧ »usr/man/man8/format.8«
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@(#)format.8 2.1 7/1/84
@(#)Copyright (C) 1983 by National Semiconductor Corp.
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.TH FORMAT 8
.SH NAME
format \- how to format disks
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Warning : Formatting destroys entire data on the disk.
Below is a procedure which is the same for all types of disks.
The example given is a 3M disk.
Boldface characters are to be typed in by the user.
.PP
.in 10
%
.B format
.PP
.nf
Disk Formatting Program.
Unit type sectrk trkcyl cylunit seccyl secunit
0 3M 30 4 208 120 33600
.PP
Please enter interleave value (0, 1, 2 or 3; default is 0):
.fi
.PP
.in 10
>>
.B
0 <CR>
.PP
Please specify unit number of disk to be formatted:
.PP
.in 10
>>
.B
0 <CR>
.PP
WARNING : Formatting destroys data on the disk.
If you still want to format unit 0, type 'y':
.PP
.in 10
>>
.B
y <CR>
.nf
.PP
Formatting and verifying unit 0 (280 cyclinders total).
Completed 10 cylinders
Completed 20 cylinders.
Completed 30 cylinders.
:
:
Completed 280 cylinders.
Format completed (0 hard error, 0 soft error).
%
.fi
.PP
Formatting is considered to be successful even if soft errors are
detected.
Currently, the program supports BASF, 3M and IMI disks.
.PP
Once a disk is formatted, you'll still have to build file systems
on it with mkfs(8) before you can use it with GENIX.
.SH SEE ALSO
badsect(8), mkfs(8)