Reformatting external harddrive

Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questions at mailing.thruhere.net
Tue May 12 15:14:56 UTC 2009


On Tuesday 12 May 2009 03:18:13 Daniel Underwood wrote:
> After unsuccessfully trying to reformat my external harddrive on my
> linux machine, I'm trying to reformat the disk in FreeBSD.  Frankly, I
> just don't know how to do that. Please help me get the disk back to
> working order; I don't need to keep any data that is currently on the
> disk.

> sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>     start 63, size 625137282 (305242 Meg), flag 80 (active)
> 	beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
> 	end: cyl 0/ head 254/ sector 63

And what's not working? this shows a 30G FreeBSD partition?
-- 
Mel


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