From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 14:25:57 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A24B0F3C for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:25:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x230.google.com (mail-wi0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 38D2B3DB for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:25:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f176.google.com with SMTP id r20so3403975wiv.15 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:25:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vptzJIf9OgJJ6X7cyjV2jJenxY53+RT71xjJnjJ1kGE=; b=0QUB71oYvWOtQ0XJxpHFkwPod4VQJS6u4KQnGYBKAfR5f9Cv4el+JZSgsbZxHMSyv3 TKc0xWmC88G/EzBsfk/44wZgQzxyEaYtp8wx2PkYrEkMBNEk1NZ08or6vs4y5O7Y6l74 X4SMXOc4K40vyuq9aEkjx5rgBSuId7ZR9ZixOSUDxE18wTmPfHB78ez302gHL9WWmy+l DgvoG3TgIIbk7SMKQvTCtr6wnxTYdoLebrJPPb1jERyhmNs4WEYbMQitWdGYpSQRgct4 /pkqzS8zc2pksxM/wSAigstlD3kN9kAp4pmQZZtE+Za01fcfPQOkcXtrRl3OVnmwv4BP K5OA== X-Received: by 10.194.20.65 with SMTP id l1mr13662627wje.39.1396275951162; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:25:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (4e5670d6.skybroadband.com. [78.86.112.214]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id em1sm27002406wid.5.2014.03.31.07.25.50 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:25:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:25:48 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: formating external HD - SOLVED Message-ID: <20140331152548.5bba7cd5@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <1692218.G9pFmmA9u9@lumiwa.farms.net> References: <3016878.JpiT52WW0y@lumiwa.farms.net> <1692218.G9pFmmA9u9@lumiwa.farms.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:25:57 -0000 On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:04:01 -0400 Ajtim wrote: > On Monday 31 March 2014 08:31:18 Ajtim wrote: > > Hi! > > > > My system: FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE (amd64). > > > > I decided to format my external firewire HD. I mounted disk > > like /dev/da1p0. Are those commands correct, please? > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da bs=1m count=128 > > newfs -L FreeBSD -O2 -U -m 6 /dev/da1 > > > > or I need to use /dev/da1p0? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Thanks to the authors of > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html > http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2010/06/freebsd-how-to-format-partition.html > > it took just few minutes and it is done :). One thing I would add is that these days I set the -i option according to what's going to go on the disk. I think the default inode density has doubled in FreeBSD 10, which is fine for /var and /usr, but for discs that contain a lot of multimedia it wastes a bit more than you gain by -m 6.