On Tue, 12 May 2009 22:04:35 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com
wrote:
According to the newfs manpages, you can specify a filesystem type
(-O) and a disktype (-T) for backward compatibility. It further
appears that -O can only designate either UFS1 or UFS2. I don't quite
know what
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 03:18:13 Daniel Underwood 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. Please help me get the disk back to
working order; I don't need to
On Mon, 11 May 2009 21:18:13 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@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
Daniel Underwood 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. Please help me get the disk back to
working order; I don't need to keep any data that is currently on
Thanks for all the advice. This evening, when I get home to work, I
will try these suggestions.
I have no idea why there is more than 1 partition on this disk. I must
have inadvertently created multiple partitions when I was struggling
to reformat this disk in linux. Every time I tried to fdisk
On Tue, 12 May 2009 13:41:37 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com
wrote:
I have no idea why there is more than 1 partition on this disk.
I think I just saw one partition (slice in FreeBSD) in your output.
The data for partition 1 is:
[blah]
The data for partition 2 is:
UNUSED
The
Awesome. This is exactly the advice I need. Thanks!
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 01:41:37PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Thanks for all the advice. This evening, when I get home to work, I
will try these suggestions.
I have no idea why there is more than 1 partition on this disk. I must
have inadvertently created multiple partitions when I was
Thanks guys, this is perfect.
According to the newfs manpages, you can specify a filesystem type
(-O) and a disktype (-T) for backward compatibility. It further
appears that -O can only designate either UFS1 or UFS2. I don't quite
know what the -T option designates; i.e., back compatible with
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. Please help me get the disk back to
working order; I don't need to keep any data that is currently on the
disk.
The command
$
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