System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Specifying Disk Names to format Commands

There are certain times in the format utility when you must name something. In these cases, you are free to specify any string you want for the name. If the name has white space in it, the entire name must be enclosed in double quotation marks ("). Otherwise, only the first word of the name is used.

For example, if you want to identify a specific partition table for a disk, you can use the name sub-command available from the partition menu:


partition> name
Enter table name (remember quotes): "new disk3"