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INITIALIZE

   Formats and writes a label on a foreign mass storage volume.
   For directory-structured devices, the device directory is also
   initialized.

   Format

     INITIALIZE  device-name [volume-label]

     INITIALIZE/CREATE  file-name [volume-label]



Additional information available:

Parameters      Description     Qualifiers
/ALLOCATION     /BADBLOCKS      /CREATE         /DENSITY        /EXTRA_WORDS
/MESSAGE        /REPLACE        /SEGMENTS       /VOLUME_FORMAT
Examples