FORMAT(8)               GENIX Programmer's Manual               FORMAT(8)



      NAME
           format - how to format disks

      DESCRIPTION
           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 user.

                % format

                Disk Formatting Program.
                Unit  type  sectrk  trkcyl  cylunit  seccyl  secunit
                  0    3M      30       4      208     120    33600

                Please enter interleave value (0, 1, 2 or 3; default is 0):

                >> 0 <CR>

                Please specify unit number of disk to be formatted:

                >> 0 <CR>

                WARNING : Formatting destroys data on the disk.
                If you still want to format unit 0, type 'y':

                >> y <CR>

                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).
                %

           Formatting is considered to be successful even though there is  soft
           error.  Currently, the program supports BASF, 3M and IMI disks.

           Once a disk is formatted, you'll still have to build file systems on
           it with mkfs(8) before you can use it with UNIX.

      SEE ALSO
           badsect(8), mkfs(8)










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