Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:23:36 +0200 From: "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Robert Bonomi" <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem? Message-ID: <op.whu9pm01g7njmm@michael-think> In-Reply-To: <201207222101.q6ML1fqO026079@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201207222101.q6ML1fqO026079@mail.r-bonomi.com>
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:01:41 +0200, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote: > I haven't had occasion to dissect a copy of format in years, I don't know > if it still defaults to one write attemptto every sector on the disk. "By default in Windows Vista, the format command writes zeros to the whole disk when a full format is performed." http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941961/en-us With the addition of the "passes"-switch, this seems to imply "one write attempt per sector", but I didn't find any explicit statement to that accord.
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