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.
Command options
The -f and -l options specify the first and last track to be formatted.
The default interleave of 1 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.
-q
Quiet mode.
Perform the floppy disk format operation, but do not
report status, inquiry, or error messages.
-v
Verbose mode (always true).
-V
Verify.
After tracks are formatted, a random sector is chosen
and a write of test data is done into it.
The sector is then read back
and a comparison is made.
-E
exhaustive verify. Every sector is verified by write/read/compare.
Files
/dev/rdsk/ raw device for partition to be formatted
raw device for partition to be formatted