From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 28 8:50:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B5AF37B8C8; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:50:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA24256; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:50:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id JAA74180; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:50:21 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200002281650.JAA74180@harmony.village.org> To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line? Cc: Doug White , Marc Frajola , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:46:13 +1030." <20000228194613.X4601@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000228194613.X4601@freebie.lemis.com> <20000228112921.G4601@freebie.lemis.com> <200002262003.MAA13658@enginet.com> <20000228112921.G4601@freebie.lemis.com> <200002280847.BAA71406@harmony.village.org> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:50:20 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000228194613.X4601@freebie.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: : Do other BSDs have something similar? We obviously have an : incompatibility here, and it would be nice to come to an agreement on : a standard syntax. It would also be nice to be able to warn people : before performing such a destructive step, and allow recovery if you : do it before stopping the program. OpenBSD's fdisk is the the nly one that I've played around with. It doesn't seem to have a command line option to create an empty disk. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message