On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote: > sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 then do the dd again. Thanks Jeremy, that worked fine. > I STRONGLY recommend you add "bs=64k" to that dd statement, or else it's > going to take a million years. :-) That's a good tip, reduced formatting time by 85%! :)