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Note the origin of the newfs_msdos command from FreeBSD 3.0. 

Replace contraction.
s/filesystem/file system/
Bump date.
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.\" $NetBSD: newfs_msdos.8,v 1.20 2014/04/24 23:49:40 christos Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: newfs_msdos.8,v 1.21 2016/09/12 05:09:39 sevan Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Robert Nordier
.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
.\" From: $FreeBSD: src/sbin/newfs_msdos/newfs_msdos.8,v 1.13 2001/08/14 10:01:48 ru Exp $
.\"
.Dd April 24, 2014
.Dd September 12, 2016
.Dt NEWFS_MSDOS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ to determine geometry, if required.
The options are as follow:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl N
Don't create a file system: just print out parameters.
Do not create a file system: just print out parameters.
.It Fl @ Ar offset
Build the filesystem at the specified offset in bytes in the device or file.
Build the file system at the specified offset in bytes in the device or file.
A suffix s, k, m, g (lower or upper case)
appended to the offset specifies that the
number is in sectors, kilobytes, megabytes or gigabytes, respectively.
@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Sectors per cluster.
Acceptable values are powers of 2 in the range 1 through 128.
If the block or cluster size are not specified, the code
uses a cluster between 512 bytes and 32K depending on
the filesystem size.
the file system size.
.It Fl e Ar dirents
Number of root directory entries (FAT12 and FAT16 only).
.It Fl f Ar format
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When the geometry is not available, it is assumed to be
63 sectors, 255 heads.
The size is then rounded to become
a multiple of the track size and avoid complaints by some filesystem code.
a multiple of the track size and avoid complaints by some file system code.
.Pp
FAT file system parameters occupy a "Boot Sector BPB (BIOS Parameter
Block)" in the first of the "reserved" sectors which precede the actual
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.Xr fdisk 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm
utility appeared in
.Fx 3.0 .
The
.Nm
command first appeared in