Quick question on newfs

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> I was setting up encrypted swap with GELI and accidentally
> blew away my /tmp partition with:
> 
> # dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/ad0s1e bs=1m
> 
> Understandably, it will no longer allow me to mount /tmp,
> so how do I use newfs to recreate the partition? I want to
> be absolutely sure before entering any disk modifying
> commands (just like I was absolutely sure last time...).
> 
> I'm guessing it's as simple as:
> 
> # newfs /dev/ad0s1e

Yup.   For /tmp, I would just take the defaults.  They
are quite reasonable there.    In fact, unless you have an
unusually large partition or one with an unusually large number
of files (thus a need for extra inodes), generally the defaults
work well with most partitions.

////jerry

> 
> cheers,
> a1
> 
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