From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 12 01:18:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBEB106564A for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 01:18:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djuatdelta@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f207.google.com (mail-ew0-f207.google.com [209.85.219.207]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 801808FC0A for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 01:18:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djuatdelta@gmail.com) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so3856617ewy.43 for ; Mon, 11 May 2009 18:18:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mhN2vcEx1zeXffxC8Yjsg8+opM0JtejHFmdnGDW5IUM=; b=jPdfVOuOpGPTq6hE8a8Sr8bU/UZKYXOl3GdYa+v83Vj1bU28l4Kf0bHIzFzHjkTbeB hzxoBCopw+G73XngIT/36hAvJE/32XlZJxeKZylGtIAznR2D8N3zhVrevcLjnvMCPsKT UnuBUeTZPCGWalKYqytx7waEinJr1eFL5Iu5o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=drSqKkMUpUvc4bziSIa5hETSWHn7KKOei150H8osh9YIG7Axo1V2ls7eL+ltFmthNJ qBg+2he7db3ooguseOUADvx1K3zHfORgLJucSXceglSrPSfGVPubLzprOkRege9gWIlk zrJpZteZCqnNKS+fALViTPR+RtK9Qh7FsT7fg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.128.5 with SMTP id a5mr1325997ebd.25.1242091093441; Mon, 11 May 2009 18:18:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:18:13 -0400 Message-ID: From: Daniel Underwood To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Reformatting external harddrive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 01:18:15 -0000 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: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: