English Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN DISK?
disk
n 1: something with a round shape like a flat circular plate
[syn: {disc}, {saucer}]
2: a thin flat circular plate [syn: {disc}]
3: a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce
music by rotating as a phonograph needle tracked in the
grooves [syn: {phonograph record}, {phonograph recording},
{record}, {disc}, {platter}]
4: (computer science) a memory device consisting of a flat disk
covered with a magnetic coating on which information is
stored [syn: {magnetic disk}, {magnetic disc}, {disc}]
v : draw a harrow over (land) [syn: {harrow}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ FDISK
FDISK
(Fixed disk utility) An {MS-DOS}
utility program which prepares a {hard disk} so that it can be
used as a {boot disk} and {file systems} can be created on it.
{OS/2}, {NT}, {Windows 95}, {Linux}, and other {Unix} versions
all have this command or something similar.
(1996-12-23)
 fdc  fddi  fdisk  fdlibm  fdma