January 12, 1994 FORMAT 8 hp300

### NAME

format - how to format disks and tapes

### DESCRIPTION

Currently, there are no ``native'' NetBSD media formatting utilities. Formatting of both disks and cartridge tapes must be done either stand-alone or under HP-UX using the mediainit utility distributed by HP. Note that HP-brand cartridge tapes come pre-formatted, and HP disks are supposed to.

### HISTORY

The format utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.