NEWDISK(8) x68k NEWDISK(8)
NAME
newdiskPrepare 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
HISTORY
The newdisk utility first appeared in NetBSD 1.5.
AUTHORS
newdisk was written by MINOURA Makoto <minoura@NetBSD.org>.