[X-Unix] Disk Formatting

[Alex]

>> I want to format a hard disk, scan the surface for bad blocks, and map
>> out the bad blocks, if any. Is there a CLI tool for this job?


On Tuesday, Feb 17, 2004, at 22:47 Canada/Eastern, Alexandre Gauthier 
wrote:

> This is a shot in the dark, but you may want to research fsck_hfs 
> (fsck)

On Wednesday, Feb 18, 2004, at 01:18 Canada/Eastern, Juan Manuel 
Palacios wrote:

> There's always pdisk(1) to manipulate Apple partition maps, but I 
> don't know if it'll get you what you want with respect to the surace 
> scanning, pretty sure it'll let you reformat the hard disk and create 
> a custom setup.

On Wednesday, Feb 18, 2004, at 10:44 Canada/Eastern, Brent Baisley 
wrote:

> Try looking into diskutil and hfs.util


Thanks for the replies. However, the above-mentioned utilities are 
concerned with high-level manipulation. I'm looking for something that 
does low-level formatting, e.g., format, which, however, AFAICT is not 
included with Darwin.

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