From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 9 8:36:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7231437B407 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 08:36:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from waynep@pan.ehsrealtime.com) Received: from [213.52.146.196] (helo=pan.ehsrealtime.com) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15I8R9-0006a8-01; Thu, 05 Jul 2001 13:40:51 +0100 Received: from waynep by pan.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15I8Qa-0000UK-00; Thu, 05 Jul 2001 13:40:16 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: "Jae Carlson" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Formating Hard drive References: <005501c10554$40382e60$030aa8c0@my.net> Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Date: 05 Jul 2001 13:40:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: <005501c10554$40382e60$030aa8c0@my.net> Message-ID: <8666d7r1lb.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jae Carlson" 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 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. -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message