NEWDISK(8) | System Manager's Manual (x68k) | NEWDISK(8) |
newdisk
— Prepare
a new disk to be usable for X680x0
newdisk |
[-vnfcp ] [-m
mboot] raw_device |
newdisk
prepares a new hard disk to be
bootable from by X680x0. It should NOT be used for floppy disks.
It creates a disk mark for IOCS to determine the disk geometry, writes the primary boot program (mboot), and creates empty partition table. The option are as follows:
-v
-n
-f
newdisk
detects existing disk
mark, it aborts with some error messages. -f
option prevents this behaviour.-c
newdisk
looks at the disk whether it
is already marked.-p
-m
mbootThe newdisk
utility first appeared in
NetBSD 1.5.
newdisk
was written by
MINOURA Makoto
<minoura@NetBSD.org>.
February 17, 2017 | NetBSD 10.99 |