Format the media.
$ rmformat -F quick device-name |
(Optional) Create an alternate Solaris partition table.
$ rmformat -s slice-file device-name |
A sample slice file looks like the following:
slices: 0 = 0, 30MB, "wm", "home" : 1 = 30MB, 51MB : 2 = 0, 94MB, "wm", "backup" : 6 = 81MB, 13MB |
Become superuser.
Determine the appropriate file system type and select one of the following:
The following example shows how to format a diskette and create a UFS file system on the diskette.
$ rmformat -F quick /vol/dev/aliases/floppy0 Formatting will erase all the data on disk. Do you want to continue? (y/n) y $ su # /usr/sbin/newfs /vol/dev/aliases/floppy0 newfs: construct a new file system /dev/rdiskette: (y/n)? y /dev/rdiskette: 2880 sectors in 80 cylinders of 2 tracks, 18 sectors 1.4MB in 5 cyl groups (16 c/g, 0.28MB/g, 128 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -F ufs -o b=#) at: 32, 640, 1184, 1792, 2336, # |
The following example shows how to format a PCMCIA memory card and create a UFS file system on the card.
$ rmformat -F quick /vol/dev/aliases/pcmem0 $ su # /usr/sbin/newfs -v /vol/dev/aliases/pcmem0 newfs: construct a new file system /vol/dev/aliases/pcmem0:(y/n)? y . . . # |
This example shows how to create an alternate fdisk partition.
$ rmformat -F quick /dev/rdsk/c0t4d0s2:c Formatting will erase all the data on disk. Do you want to continue? (y/n) y $ su # fdisk /dev/rdsk/c0t4d0s2:c # mkfs -F pcfs /dev/rdsk/c0t4d0s2:c Construct a new FAT file system on /dev/rdsk/c0t4d0s2:c: (y/n)? y # |
This example shows how to create a PCFS file system without an fdisk partition.
$ rmformat -F quick /dev/rdiskette Formatting will erase all the data on disk. Do you want to continue? (y/n) y $ su # mkfs -F pcfs -o nofdisk,size=2 /dev/rdiskette Construct a new FAT file system on /dev/rdiskette: (y/n)? y # |