Editing Disk formatting (section)

=== Unix-like operating systems ===

High-level formatting of disks on these systems is traditionally done using the <code>[[mkfs]]</code> command. On Linux (and potentially other systems as well) <code>mkfs</code> is typically a wrapper around filesystem-specific commands which have the name <code>mkfs''.fsname''</code>, where ''fsname'' is the name of the filesystem with which to format the disk.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://linux.die.net/man/8/mkfs |title = mkfs(8) - Linux man page |access-date = 2010-04-25}}</ref> Some filesystems which are not supported by certain implementations of <code>mkfs</code> have their own manipulation tools; for example [[Ntfsprogs]] provides a format utility for the [[NTFS]] filesystem.

Some Unix and Unix-like operating systems have higher-level formatting tools, usually for the purpose of making disk formatting easier and/or allowing the user to partition the disk with the same tool. Examples include [[GNU Parted]] (and its various GUI frontends such as [[GParted]] and the [[KDE Partition Manager]]) and the [[Disk Utility]] application on [[Mac OS X]].