Post #4012662
2026-07-22 13:09 UTC
low level format
What do you mean?
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@non_burglar@lemmy.world 2026-07-22 14:15
Erasing the partition table and/or uefi metadata space.
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@mangaskahn@lemmy.world 2026-07-22 21:24
Low level formating is how the data tracks are layed out on the disk platters, it’s what the drive firmware sees. hdparm and sg_format instruct the disk to rearrange those tracks. High-level formatting is what the OS sees when you run mkfs. It creates a new file system or replaces an existing one.