FDFORMAT(8) System Administration FDFORMAT(8)NAMEfdformat - low-level format a floppy disk
SYNOPSISfdformat [options] device
DESCRIPTIONfdformat 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 for‐
mat has not been autodetected earlier. In this case, use setfdprm(8)
to load the disk parameters.
For ATAPI IDE floppy driver (also known as LS-120 drives or "Superdisk"
drives) you have to use the floppy(8).
OPTIONS-n, --no-verify
Skip the verification that is normally performed after the for‐
matting.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
SEE ALSOfd(4), setfdprm(8), mkfs(8), emkfs(8), floppy(8)AUTHOR
Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
AVAILABILITY
The fdformat command is part of the util-linux package and is available
from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
util-linux July 2011 FDFORMAT(8)