I would say it stands for "fixed disk" - it really doesn't format anything 
anyway, it is for partitions.

A paste from the man page:

NAME
      fdisk - create or modify fixed disk partition table

Jeff

At 11:11 AM 2/20/2002 -0500, Brian V Bonini wrote:
>Anyone know what "fdisk" stands for?
>
>I've heard both "fixed disk" and "format disk",
>I always thought the later....
>
>Sorry for for the OT post.....
>
>-B
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