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Re: What app formats a hard disk?

From Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: What app formats a hard disk?
Date 2014-03-10 22:22 +0000
Message-ID <100320142222431165%timstreater@greenbee.net> (permalink)
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In article <qdOdnbG8P_BntoPOnZ2dnUVZ_gydnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:

> Generically, "formatting" means setting up the filesystem.  eg: the old 
> sense prevails in most people's minds regardless of what actually happens.

I'd have said "formatting means setting up the block, sector, and track
structure on the disk. I'm sure that's what I used to have to do under
Ultrix.

-- 
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"  --  Bill of Rights 1689

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What app formats a hard disk? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2014-03-09 15:12 -0400
  Re: What app formats a hard disk? philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-03-09 14:17 -0500
  Re: What app formats a hard disk? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-09 19:26 +0000
    Re: What app formats a hard disk? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-10 00:09 +0100
      Re: What app formats a hard disk? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-09 23:27 +0000
      Re: What app formats a hard disk? David Ryeburn <david_ryeburn@telus.netz> - 2014-03-13 01:59 -0700
        Re: What app formats a hard disk? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-03-14 00:03 +1300
          Re: What app formats a hard disk? Erik Richard Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> - 2014-03-13 18:59 +0100
            Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 14:04 -0400
              Re: What app formats a hard disk? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-13 20:03 +0100
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 17:10 -0400
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? Erik Richard Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> - 2014-03-14 00:18 +0100
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 19:28 -0400
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-14 01:50 +0000
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-03-14 10:16 +1300
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? Erik Richard Sørensen <tulle@tulle.dk> - 2014-03-14 00:14 +0100
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 19:28 -0400
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-03-14 13:19 +1300
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-03-15 09:13 +1300
                Re: What app formats a hard disk? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-14 02:41 +0000
        Re: What app formats a hard disk? ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-03-13 18:22 +0100
          Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-13 13:56 -0400
  Re: What app formats a hard disk? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-09 15:51 -0400
    Re: What app formats a hard disk? briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2014-03-09 19:58 +0000
      Re: What app formats a hard disk? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-09 16:17 -0400
      Re: What app formats a hard disk? Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2014-03-09 23:10 +0000
        Re: What app formats a hard disk? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-09 19:30 -0500
        Re: What app formats a hard disk? Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-10 17:17 -0400
          Re: What app formats a hard disk? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-10 22:22 +0000
    Re: What app formats a hard disk? "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-03-10 13:57 -0400

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