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 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 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"