The table below shows the features and associated benefits that the format utility provides.
Table 28-5 Features and Benefits of the format Utility
Feature |
Benefit |
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Searches your system for all attached disk drives |
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Retrieves disk labels |
Used in repair operations |
Repairs defective sectors |
Allows administrators to repair disk drives with recoverable errors instead of sending the drive back to the manufacturer |
Formats and analyzes a disk |
Creates sectors on the disk and verifies each sector |
Partitions a disk |
Divides a disk so individual file systems can be created on separate slices |
Labels a disk |
Writes disk name and configuration information to the disk for future retrieval (usually for repair operations) |
All of the options of the format utility are fully described in Chapter 32, The format Utility (Reference).