"Formatting" is not the same as building a filesystem on the drive.
So, after it is "formatted" at the factory, it is still necessary to
make slices and divide the slices in to partitions and newfs the partitions
to make file systems. SOme people use a generic work format to mean
those things. It is not quite accurate, but that is what was meant.
in modern drives there is no way (for customer at least) to FORMAT hard
disk. "low level format" is BIOS actually wipes disk with zeroes or
doesn't write anything at all.
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