On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 23:09, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> The latter (fdformat) is like "Quick Format" in DOS/NT -- it merely
> plops down the filesystem.
>
> The former+latter (fdformat+mkfs/mformat/etc...) is like the
> "[Unconditional] Format" in DOS/NT.
_Correction_, the first should read:
The latter (mkfs/mformat/etc...) is like "Quick Format" ...
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