Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:29:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Marc Frajola <marc@enginet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line? Message-ID: <20000228112921.G4601@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002270055190.63350-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> References: <200002262003.MAA13658@enginet.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002270055190.63350-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Sunday, 27 February 2000 at 0:59:30 -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Marc Frajola wrote: > >> Hi... >> >> I have spent a bit of time messing around with the command-line >> fdisk and disklabel commands, and have been unable to setup a proper >> fdisk and FreeBSD partition label solely from the command line. > > Somebody didn't check the usual places! :) > > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/ > > Also if you are on a recent (3.4?) -STABLE or -CURRENT you have the > dangerous yet handy fdisk -e option. fdisk -e is doubly dangerous. OpenBSD uses -e to mean "edit the label". In FreeBSD, it's more like "eradicate the label". Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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