rosapps/sysutils/man/man/2/format.man

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   3 Author:      Mark Russinovich
   4 Purpose:     Disk formating tool
   5 Port on ROS: Emanuele Aliberti
   6 License:     GPL
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   8 Usage: format.exe drive: [-FS:file-system] [-V:label] [-Q] [-A:size] [-C]
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  10   [drive:]         Specifies the drive to format.
  11   -FS:file-system  Specifies the type of file system (e.g. FAT).
  12   -V:label         Specifies volume label.
  13   -Q               Performs a quick format.
  14   -A:size          Overrides the default allocation unit size.
  15                    Default settings are strongly recommended for general
  16                    use NTFS supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K,
  17                    32K, 64K. FAT supports 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K, 128K, 256K.
  18                    NTFS compression is not supported for allocation
  19                    unit sizes above 4096.
  20   -C               Files created on the new volume will be compressed by
  21                    default.
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