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HMC Manual Reference Pages  - FORMATMEDIA (1)

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formatmedia - format media

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formatmedia -r usb -d device [-l label] [--help]

formatmedia formats a USB device on the Hardware Management Console (HMC). The USB device is formatted in VFAT format which is the format required for USB devices used on the HMC.

-r	The type of media device to format. The only valid value is usb for a USB flash drive or other USB data storage device.
-d	The device to format. This value can be obtained from the lsmediadev command.
-l	The label to assign to the device. The specified label will be converted to upper case and truncated to 11 characters. If this option is omitted, a blank label will be assigned.
--help	Display the help text for this command and exit.

Format a USB device:

formatmedia -r usb -d /dev/sdb1 -l BACKUP

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lsmediadev