From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 27 17: 0: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AAEA37B542 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:59:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA04974; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:29:21 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:29:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug White Cc: Marc Frajola , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line? Message-ID: <20000228112921.G4601@freebie.lemis.com> References: <200002262003.MAA13658@enginet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 27 February 2000 at 0:59:30 -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Marc Frajola wrote: > >> Hi... >> >> I have spent a bit of time messing around with the command-line >> fdisk and disklabel commands, and have been unable to setup a proper >> fdisk and FreeBSD partition label solely from the command line. > > Somebody didn't check the usual places! :) > > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/ > > Also if you are on a recent (3.4?) -STABLE or -CURRENT you have the > dangerous yet handy fdisk -e option. fdisk -e is doubly dangerous. OpenBSD uses -e to mean "edit the label". In FreeBSD, it's more like "eradicate the label". Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message