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Format Media

Media Duplication

All blank media introduced into the storage subsystem can be submitted for immediate formatting or withheld from formatting. Media withheld (-w) from formatting is automatically formatted when chosen for data storage or by manually issuing the fsformat command.

Note

For more information on the fsformat command, refer to

the Command Reference book.

If media is formatted, it is rejected when the drive attempts the format. The -foption for fsformat applies only to D-2 media. It overrides the rejection to reformat the media. Rejection of preformatted media without the force option prevents accidental formatting of media that contains data. Formatting D-2 media is time-consuming.

Media duplication is intended for the following uses:

Media maintenance - If errors frequently occur when attempting to read or write to the media.

Data maintenance - If the media is filled with unusable space because of deleted files.

Data duplication - A copy of the information is needed, in addition to the copy stored in the library.

Duplicating the contents of media or specific files on media is performed with:

fsmedcopy command.

fsfilecopy command.

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