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 > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php