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Date:      05 Jul 2001 13:40:16 +0100
From:      Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>
To:        "Jae Carlson" <j.carlson@snet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Formating Hard drive
Message-ID:  <8666d7r1lb.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>
In-Reply-To: <005501c10554$40382e60$030aa8c0@my.net>
References:  <005501c10554$40382e60$030aa8c0@my.net>

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"Jae Carlson" <j.carlson@snet.net> writes:

> Greetings all,
>     This may seem like a silly question but I am wondering how do I format a
> hard drive?  I knoiw under Linux it is mke2fs <device>  Also how do I create
> the swap partition?  

newfs creates a new filesystem
eg: newfs /dev/ad0s2a

> I know when I first set FreeBSD it created one but I
> added a hard drive which I made another swap partition on.

Fraid I can't answer that one... Sorry.

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