Subject: Re: format ???
To: Christoph Ewering <eweri@uni-paderborn.de>
From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@metronet.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/10/1997 17:05:59
>Is there no format command in the NetBSD/mac68k distribution ?
>
>I wanted to format a disk within NetBSD, but I can not find the format
>command.

What do you mean by format?  Prepare a disk for a file system? On the Mac 
that's done with Apple HD Setup or any 3rd party disk formatter.  If you 
mean prepare a disk partition to be a BSD filesystem.  That's done with 
the "newfs" command under BSD or with the Mkfs utility under MacOS.

-bob