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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:28:36 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Jae Carlson <j.carlson@snet.net>
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Subject: Re: Formating Hard drive
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jae Carlson <j.carlson@snet.net>
Sent: Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:13:14AM -0400
Subject: Formating Hard drive

> 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.

There's an excellent article online at www.freebsd.org which explains
how to format media in FreeBSD.  Enjoy reading it at:

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html

-giorgos

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