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Subject: Re: FreeBSD fdisk how to?
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>
> Yep this hard disk is for FreeBSD only. Why I should not use fdisk?

because it's not needed.

>

clean it up
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk bs=64k count=1

make initial label

bsdlabel -w disk

edit label to your needs

bsdlabel -e disk

newfs,mount,copy files,umount

bsdlabel -B disk