NetBSD-5.0.2/share/man/man8/man8.x68k/newdisk.8

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.Dd December 24, 1999
.Os
.Dt NEWDISK 8 x68k
.Sh NAME
.Nm newdisk
.Nd "Prepare a new disk to be usable for X680x0"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl vnfcp
.Op Fl m Ar mboot
.Ar raw_device
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
prepares a new hard disk to be bootable from by X680x0.  It should NOT be used
for floppy disks.
.Pp
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:
.Bl -tag -width flag
.It Fl v
Verbose mode.
.It Fl n
Dryrun mode.  Nothing is written to the disk.
.It Fl f
Force.  Usually, when
.Nm
detects existing disk mark, it aborts with some error messages.
.Fl f
option prevents this behaviour.
.It Fl c
Check only.
.Nm
looks at the disk whether it is already marked.
.It Fl p
Do not create the partition table.
.It Fl m Ar mboot
Specifies the mboot program to be written.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/mdec/mboot -compact
.It Pa /usr/mdec/mboot
The default primary boot program.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr boot 8 ,
.Xr installboot 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility first appeared in
.Nx 1.5 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.Nm
was written by
.An MINOURA Makoto Aq minoura@NetBSD.org .