formatmedia.1

formatmedia formats a USB device on the Hardware Management Console (HMC). The USB device can be formatted with the EXT4 or VFAT file system, which are the only file systems supported on 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.
-t	The type of file system to format. Valid values are ext4 and vfat. If this option is omitted, the device will be formatted with the VFAT file system.
-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 with the VFAT file system:

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

Format a USB device with the EXT4 file system:

formatmedia -r usb -d /dev/sdb1 -t ext4 -l BACKUP

HMC Manual Reference Pages - FORMATMEDIA (1)

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