formating external HD - SOLVED

Ajtim lumiwa at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 14:04:04 UTC 2014


On Monday 31 March 2014 08:31:18 Ajtim wrote:
> 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,

Thanks to the authors of 
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2010/06/freebsd-how-to-format-partition.html

it took just few minutes and it is done :).

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