From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 22 21:23:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB1E106566B for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:23:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gmx@ross.cx) Received: from www81.your-server.de (www81.your-server.de [213.133.104.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B75B8FC18 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:23:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [92.76.69.32] (helo=michael-think) by www81.your-server.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.74) (envelope-from ) id 1St3cs-0000Mo-C9; Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:23:42 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Robert Bonomi" References: <201207222101.q6ML1fqO026079@mail.r-bonomi.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:23:36 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Michael Ross" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <201207222101.q6ML1fqO026079@mail.r-bonomi.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.00 (Win32) X-Authenticated-Sender: gmx@ross.cx X-Virus-Scanned: Clear (ClamAV 0.97.3/15166/Sat Jul 21 23:06:12 2012) Cc: Subject: Re: fsck on FAT32 filesystem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:23:45 -0000 On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:01:41 +0200, Robert Bonomi 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.