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FDFORMAT(8) System Administration FDFORMAT(8)
fdformat - low-level format a floppy disk
fdformat [options] device
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.
-f, --from N
Start at the track N (default is 0).
-t, --to N
Stop at the track N.
-r, --repair N
Try to repair tracks failed during the verification (max N
retries).
-n, --no-verify
Skip the verification that is normally performed after the
formatting.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
This utility does not handle USB floppy disk drives. Use
ufiformat(8) instead.
Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
fd(4), emkfs(8), mkfs(8), setfdprm(8), ufiformat(8)
The fdformat command is part of the util-linux package and is
available from
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
This page is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux
utilities) project. Information about the project can be found
at ⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩. If you
have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
util-linux@vger.kernel.org. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git⟩ on
2021-03-21. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2021-03-19.) If you
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util-linux June 2020 FDFORMAT(8)
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