CLI filesystem format tool

[Chad Perrin]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 06:16:39PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 03:53:19PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > Is there a simple command line tool in FreeBSD for creating a filesystem
> > on an already extant slice?
> > 
> > I'm working on a system with three main slices -- ad0s1, ad0s2, and
> > ad0s3.  The ad0s2 slice is further split up into the default parts of a
> > FreeBSD install.  The ad0s1 slice is in use by another OS.  The ad0s3
> > slice has nothing of value on it, and I want to make it a FreeBSD-native
> > filesystem then mount it at /usr/home.
> > 
> > I've been hoping to find something akin to the Linux tool mkfs for this
> > purpose, but so far have come up empty.  Isn't there something that
> > works similarly to that?  Example:
> > 
> >   command /dev/ad0s3 fstype
> 
> newfs

Thanks.  That's exactly what I needed.  It doesn't seem to show up for
any of the usual suspect search terms with apropos.

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