FORMAT - Revision history

130.94.162.133 at 15:45, 20 June 2006

2006-06-20T15:45:43Z

Ninereasons: similar to mkfs

2006-06-20T03:28:10Z

similar to mkfs

Ninereasons: what FORMAT does

2006-06-20T03:20:45Z

what FORMAT does

Ninereasons: Format moved to FORMAT

2006-06-20T03:07:10Z

Format moved to FORMAT

Jimbo at 18:50, 25 August 2004

2004-08-25T18:50:28Z

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Under FreeBSD and other unixlike OSes, the equivalent command is [[newfs]]. You may also wish to consider using [[sysinstall]] (FreeBSD only) to serve as a text-mode-GUI front end for formatting and partitioning/slicing hard drives. See also [[fdisk]].

[[Category:Windows Equivalents]]

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−	'''FORMAT''' is the DOS command for blanking a disk and initializing the file allocation table for a DOS file system (such as FAT, FAT32, or NTFS). Under FreeBSD, the equivalent command is [[newfs]] (similar to <code>mkfs</code> in Linux). You may also wish to consider using [[sysinstall]] (FreeBSD only) to serve as a text-mode-GUI front end for formatting and partitioning/slicing hard drives. See also [[fdisk]].	+	'''FORMAT''' is the DOS command for blanking a disk and initializing the file allocation table for a DOS file system (such as FAT or FAT32), or NTFS. Under FreeBSD, the equivalent command is [[newfs]] (similar to <code>mkfs</code> in Linux). You may also wish to consider using [[sysinstall]] (FreeBSD only) to serve as a text-mode-GUI front end for formatting and partitioning/slicing hard drives. See also [[fdisk]].

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−	'''FORMAT''' is the DOS command for blanking a disk and initializing the file allocation table for a DOS file system (such as FAT, FAT32, or NTFS). Under FreeBSD, the equivalent command is [[newfs]]. You may also wish to consider using [[sysinstall]] (FreeBSD only) to serve as a text-mode-GUI front end for formatting and partitioning/slicing hard drives. See also [[fdisk]].	+	'''FORMAT''' is the DOS command for blanking a disk and initializing the file allocation table for a DOS file system (such as FAT, FAT32, or NTFS). Under FreeBSD, the equivalent command is [[newfs]] (similar to <code>mkfs</code> in Linux). You may also wish to consider using [[sysinstall]] (FreeBSD only) to serve as a text-mode-GUI front end for formatting and partitioning/slicing hard drives. See also [[fdisk]].

	[[Category:Windows Equivalents]]		[[Category:Windows Equivalents]]

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−	Under FreeBSD ~~and other unixlike OSes~~, the equivalent command is [[newfs]]. You may also wish to consider using [[sysinstall]] (FreeBSD only) to serve as a text-mode-GUI front end for formatting and partitioning/slicing hard drives. See also [[fdisk]].	+	'''FORMAT''' is the DOS command for blanking a disk and initializing the file allocation table for a DOS file system (such as FAT, FAT32, or NTFS). Under FreeBSD, the equivalent command is [[newfs]]. You may also wish to consider using [[sysinstall]] (FreeBSD only) to serve as a text-mode-GUI front end for formatting and partitioning/slicing hard drives. See also [[fdisk]].

	[[Category:Windows Equivalents]]		[[Category:Windows Equivalents]]