[Documentation / man p] sg_format question regarding the formatting process on sas drives

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Hey,

There’s a discussion ongoing regarding the formatting of drives using sg_format on the discussions board of ShredOS / nwipe (an open source Linux distribution to wipe disks securely with certification).

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sg_format I'm assuming you use the format command to wipe the drive although I'm not sure whether it's actually writing every bit in a block or just reformatting the blocks header. The man page doesn't seem to go into detail on that.

Could you weigh in? I would make a PR for the man pages afterwards.