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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Examples—Formatting Removable Media

This example shows how to format a diskette.


$ rmformat -F quick /dev/rdiskette
Formatting will erase all the data on disk.
Do you want to continue? (y/n) y
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This example shows how to format a Zip drive.


$ rmformat -F quick /vol/dev/aliases/zip0
Formatting will erase all the data on disk.
Do you want to continue? (y/n) y
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