Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 17:31:04 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Reformatting external harddrive Message-ID: <20090512173104.fa29b0bb.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <b6c05a470905111818ja0ddd76yd5742e4fbfa54bf2@mail.gmail.com> References: <b6c05a470905111818ja0ddd76yd5742e4fbfa54bf2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 11 May 2009 21:18:13 -0400, Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
The command
# newfs /dev/da0
should reformat the disk. You end up with one partition covering
the whole disk. There's no need to put a slice on it (with a
partition in it) when you're not going to boot from that disk.
> The command
>
> $ /dev/da0
Souldn't it be
# fdisk da0
because you're presenting a fdisk output?
> gives the following output:
>
> ******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
> 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
There's a FreeBSD partition on that disk.
Which files do you have in /dev?
# ll /dev/da0*
Maybe you just need to newfs /dev/da0s1{a,c,d,e,...?}.
--
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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