December 24, 1999

### NAME

newdisk - Prepare a new disk to be usable for X680x0

### SYNOPSIS

newdisk [-vnfcp] [-m mboot] raw_device

### DESCRIPTION

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
  Verbose mode.

-n
  Dryrun mode. Nothing is written to the disk.

-f
  Force. Usually, when newdisk detects existing disk mark, it aborts with some error messages. -f option prevents this behaviour.

-c
  Check only. newdisk looks at the disk whether it is already marked.

-p
  Do not create the partition table.

-m mboot
  Specifies the mboot program to be written.

### FILES

```/usr/mdec/mboot`
  The default primary boot program.

### SEE ALSO

boot(8), installboot(8)

### HISTORY

The newdisk utility first appeared in NetBSD1.5.

### AUTHORS

newdisk was written by MINOURA Makoto <minoura@NetBSD.org>
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