USERFDFORMAT

Section: User Commands (1)
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NAME

userfdformat - low level format floppys

SYNOPSIS

userfdformat device

DESCRIPTION

This manual describes the userfdformat command. Userfdformat allow normal user to low level format disks.

When invocated, userfdformat checks if the device given is a floppy (it checks that his name start with /dev/fd[01], that the user has rights to write it, and that is a special block device with the right major number) and then exec()s as superuser the fdformat call.

AUTHOR

This version of userfdformat for Linux is written by Romano Giannetti <romano@sensores2.fis.ucm.es> and is freely distributable under the GNU General Public License.