From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 4 19:23:39 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C1E106568B for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:23:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505e.appriver.com [98.129.35.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC828FC1C for ; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 19:23:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.14 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht01.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: 112 113 114 115 119 120 131 218 X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.14] (HELO ht01.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.14) with ESMTPS id 15580557 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:23:47 -0600 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.164]) by ht01.exg5.exghost.com ([98.129.23.14]) with mapi; Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:23:37 -0600 From: Peter Steele To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:23:35 -0600 Thread-Topic: Is there the equivalent of a Windows "fast format" for UFS? Thread-Index: Acp1F0ZXpbrwuD7VRt+PW+TEW9dS0g== Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB33C6C072@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Is there the equivalent of a Windows "fast format" for UFS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:23:39 -0000 I suspect I know the answer to this question but I'll ask it anyway. We're = dealing with some very large disks (11TB raid array) and a newfs operation = takes a significant time. Is there any way to get a volume formatted faster= than the typical newfs does?