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From: Paul Branston <apbran@rannoch.demon.co.uk>
To: Jae Carlson <j.carlson@snet.net>
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Subject: Re: Formating Hard drive
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:13:14AM -0400, Jae Carlson wrote:
> Greetings all,
>     This may seem like a silly question but I am wondering how do I format a
> hard drive?  I knoiw under Linux it is mke2fs <device>  Also how do I create
> the swap partition?  I know when I first set FreeBSD it created one but I
> added a hard drive which I made another swap partition on.
> Thank you in advance,
> Jae

try "man newfs"

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