From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 5 18:58:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02986 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:58:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02937 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:58:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA06910; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:27:32 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA19066; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:27:32 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980206132732.19756@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:27:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Frank Griffith , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Format disk References: <01BD3277.64284660@fast1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <01BD3277.64284660@fast1>; from Frank Griffith on Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 08:48:18PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Thu, 5 February 1998 at 20:48:18 -0600, Frank Griffith wrote: > I have added another hard drive to my FreeBSD 2.2.5 system. > It was one I used earlier to install the FreeBSD system. It is > now running as a slave to another identical drive which is > running FreeBSD 2.2.5. > > I can mount this drive and see it, but it still has the operating > system and file system from the previous installs. I would > like to clear it off and make one or two directories on it. > > What's the best way to attack this one? If you want to get rid of *everything* on the partition, just run newfs on it. If you want to repartition the disk, you can use /stand/sysinstall to partition it first. Greg