From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 04:34:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D830D16A420 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:34:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E68043D45 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:34:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from riemann.math.jussieu.fr (riemann.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.3]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.6/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k2V4YJVT084797 ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:34:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 164 Received: from cantor.math.jussieu.fr (cantor.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.2]) by riemann.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.6/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k2V4YHFZ043132 ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:34:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cantor.math.jussieu.fr (jas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cantor.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.1/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k2V4YHKS089567 ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:34:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from jas@localhost) by cantor.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k2V4YHIB089566; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:34:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jas) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:34:16 +0200 From: Albert Shih To: Jerry McAllister Message-ID: <20060331043416.GA82252@math.jussieu.fr> References: <20060330232822.GA31890@math.jussieu.fr> <200603310119.k2V1JHac007725@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200603310119.k2V1JHac007725@clunix.cl.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Spam-Score: -1.44 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 134.157.13.3 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.164]); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:34:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Antivirus: scanned by sophie at shiva.jussieu.fr X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 442CB14B.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: formating a disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: shih@math.jussieu.fr List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:34:22 -0000 Le 30/03/2006 20:19:17-0500, Jerry McAllister a écrit > > > > I wonder what exactly you mean by 'format'. > We don't tend to use that word to mean making slices (fdisk), > partitions (disklabel/bsdlabel) or file systems (newfs). Well the purpose is of course newfs. > > Usually format refers to something done at the very low leval of > the drive and is normally only done at the manufacturer nowdays. > I expect you mean one or more of the others, but cannot say. > > But, anyway, that is what you need to do - in that order. > fdisk, disk/abel/bsdlabel, newfs > > So, try and explain what you have done using these utilities if > you have and if you haven't, then check them out and see if > that helps. If you really did a "format" under XP, then I think > you can just start over with fdisk, but I haven't tried that on > a hard disk much less a firewire device. First I try to edit the slice with fdisk but when he need to write I've got Information from DOS bootblock is: 1: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 156296322 (76316 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 1/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 512/ head 254/ sector 63 2: 3: 4: Should we write new partition table? [n] y fdisk: Geom not found [root@freebsd1 rc.d]# What's that mean ? How can I fix that ? Lots of thanks Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. Heure local/Local time: Fri Mar 31 06:31:34 CEST 2006