formating external HD

Ajtim lumiwa at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 12:31:21 UTC 2014


Hi!

My system: FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE (amd64).

I decided to format my external firewire HD. I mounted disk like /dev/da1p0.
Are those commands correct, please?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da bs=1m count=128
newfs -L FreeBSD -O2 -U -m 6 /dev/da1

or I need to use /dev/da1p0?

Thanks in advance,
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