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Re: QUICK FORMAT or FULL FORMAT - Which one!?!
« on: December 01, 2003, 03:32:08 PM »
There is nothing to vote, really, as you should always use quickformat.

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Re: QUICK FORMAT or FULL FORMAT - Which one!?!
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2003, 03:39:19 PM »
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full format is important if you use FFS.

Now I'm curious: Why?

The only reason I can think of is to make sure that no remains of the previous filesystem remain, in case you need to run recovery on the medium.