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Definition from: man diskutil
Authored by: hamarkus on Jul 28, '06 05:33:27AM

From man diskutil:
reformat device
Reformat an existing device in the same name and format.

I think this makes it obvious what reformat means. It precisely means the opposite of what some people were claiming (format a disk in a different format). By deduction, 'Format an (NTFS, HFS, UFS,...) disk' simply means the disk is being formatted, it does not specify in which format it is going to be formatted. If that information is important simply use the short and very convenient word 'as', as in ''format [a disk] as NTSF'.



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