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Working with diskettes

Erasing diskettes

The best way to erase the contents of a diskette is to reformat the diskette. Enter

format special_file

where special_file is the path to a diskette raw device (such as /dev/rdsk/f0t for the ``first'' diskette drive on a system).

See format(1M).


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