FORMAT(1M)           INTERACTIVE UNIX System           FORMAT(1M)



          NAME
               format - format floppy disk tracks

          SYNOPSIS
               /bin/format [-vVE] [-f first] [-l last] [-i interleave]
               device[t]

          DESCRIPTION
               The format command formats floppy disks.  Unless otherwise
               specified, formatting starts at track 0 and continues until
               an error is returned at the end of a partition.

               The -f and -l options specify the first and last track to be
               formatted. The default interleave of 2 may be modified by
               using the -i option.  Device must specify a raw (character)
               floppy device.  The t indicates the entire disk.  Absence of
               this letter indicates that the first track of the diskette
               cannot be accessed.

               -v        verbose.

               -V        verify. After tracks are formatted, a random sec-
                         tor is chosen and a write of test data is done
                         into it. The sector is then read back and a com-
                         parison is made.

               -E        exhaustive verify. Every sector is verified by
                         write/read/compare.

          FILES
               /dev/rdsk/*     raw device for partition to be formatted

          SEE ALSO
               mkpart(1M), fd(7).





















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