On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Paul Mather wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Marcel Chukwunenye wrote:
> 
> > Shocks! I cannot believe that there is no utility to format
> > and partition a drive.
> 
> There is: the "utility" to "format" a hard drive is called "newfs" and
> the "utility" to partition it is called "disklabel." :-)

Smileys aside, could people please try to remember the difference between
"formatting" and "initializing a file system".

And yes, the "FORMAT" command on a PC can do both, but normally only do
the latter. (I guess the confusion on the PC is to blame for this
misconception about "format".).

	Johnny

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