It includes creation of a table of contents for the partition or disk, and it does not destroy data already on the partition or disk. High level formatting or logical formatting. The creation of a filesystem is also referred to as Low level formats are more commonly performed on floppy disks (using the fdformat command) to prepare them for use with a different type of filesystem and operating system. It is rarely necessary to perform a low level format on a HDD. Formatting of new HDD and floppy disks is done at the factory. This results in the destruction of any existing data on the disk. It consists of dividing the disk's tracks into a specified number of sectors and filling the data area of each sector with dummy byte values or with a pattern of test values. A formatted partition or disk is one to which a low level format, also called a physical format, has been applied. The mkfs (i.e., make filesystem) command is used to create a filesystem (i.e., a system for organizing a hierarchy of directories, subdirectories and files) on a formatted storage device or media, usually a partition on a hard disk drive (HDD),Ī partition is a logically independent section of a HDD.
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