formating external HD - SOLVED

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On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:04:01 -0400
Ajtim wrote:

> 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 :).


One thing I would add is that these days I set the -i option according
to what's going to go on the disk. I think the default inode density has
doubled in FreeBSD 10, which is fine for /var and /usr, but for discs
that contain a lot of multimedia it wastes a bit more than you gain by
-m 6.