From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 22:56:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51E916A420 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:56:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B6C143D46 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:56:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id k1KMuXiU025285; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:56:33 -0500 (EST) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id k1KMuXN6025284; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:56:33 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200602202256.k1KMuXN6025284@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: artifact.one@googlemail.com (mal content) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:56:33 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <8e96a0b90602201443g73339521l82e6d176da2024f9@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick question on newfs 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: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:56:34 -0000 > > I was setting up encrypted swap with GELI and accidentally > blew away my /tmp partition with: > > # dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/ad0s1e bs=1m > > Understandably, it will no longer allow me to mount /tmp, > so how do I use newfs to recreate the partition? I want to > be absolutely sure before entering any disk modifying > commands (just like I was absolutely sure last time...). > > I'm guessing it's as simple as: > > # newfs /dev/ad0s1e Yup. For /tmp, I would just take the defaults. They are quite reasonable there. In fact, unless you have an unusually large partition or one with an unusually large number of files (thus a need for extra inodes), generally the defaults work well with most partitions. ////jerry > > cheers, > a1 > > (ps: please CC as I'm not on the list) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >