From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 11 20:20: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8631519F for ; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:19:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA07763; Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:19:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903120419.XAA07763@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: *roar* In-Reply-To: <001a01be6beb$facd55c0$736cb4cd@default> from Tyson Dougherty at "Mar 11, 99 06:21:21 pm" To: mannix@eoni.com Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:19:30 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tyson Dougherty wrote, > The harddrive I installed fbsd on is not recognized with 'fdisk' anymore. 'fdisk' from within FreeBSD or 'fdisk' from DOS? Or... > /dev/hdb I cannot reformat. That is not a FreeBSD device. Are you using Linux? Why are you asking us then? Are you asking about 'fdisk' form Linux? > It's got a fbsd label. Why?? It has a FreeBSD label because you installed FreeBSD on it. At least that is what you told us. > I just want to > wipe the drive clean, like new. How do I rid it of all fbsd? Put something else over it. > I have a new HD for fbsd and I need to clear this one up. Thanks, You don't need to clear it up unless you are planning to put something over the old FreeBSD stuff. I think your question might be better directed towards whatever you are trying to clobber this drive with. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message