Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:18:13 -0400 From: Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Reformatting external harddrive Message-ID: <b6c05a470905111818ja0ddd76yd5742e4fbfa54bf2@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
After unsuccessfully trying to reformat my external harddrive on my linux machine, I'm trying to reformat the disk in FreeBSD. Frankly, I just don't know how to do that. Please help me get the disk back to working order; I don't need to keep any data that is currently on the disk. The command $ /dev/da0 gives the following output: ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=38913 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=38913 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 625137282 (305242 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 0/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED>
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?b6c05a470905111818ja0ddd76yd5742e4fbfa54bf2>