HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1M System Administration Commands A-M (vol 3)

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format(1M) format(1M)
Error messages generated by system calls:
format uses the following system calls:
malloc(), free(), stat(), open(),
close(), read(), write(), and ioctl().
Documentation for these HP-UX system calls contains information about the specific error conditions asso-
ciated with each call.
format does not alter the value of
errno. The interpretation of
errno for
printing purposes is performed by the system utility
strerror() .
EXAMPLES
To format the HP SCSI disk array LUN
/dev/rdsk/c2t0d0
on a Series 800:
format /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0
WARNING
The format command will destroy all user data on the addressed LUN.
DEPENDENCIES
The HP C2425 and HP C2427 disk arrays are only supported on Series 700 systems running HP-UX version
9.0X.
The HP C2430 disk array is supported on Series 700 and 800 systems running HP-UX versions 9.0X and
10.0X.
AUTHOR
format was developed by HP.
Section 1M−−238 Hewlett-Packard Company − 2 − HP-UX 11i Version 1: September 2005