Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:13:03 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: More ZIP Problems Message-ID: <44zl28yyu8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4B9FA602.60102@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> (Programmer In Training's message of "Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:38:42 -0500") References: <4B9F9FB6.3030100@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> <444okg47nx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4B9FA602.60102@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us>
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Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> writes: > On 03/16/10 10:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Programmer In Training <pit@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> writes: >> >>> OK, so I got the disk mounted as it was. Then I used fdisk to reformat >>> it (probably not the best tool to do so, but it worked) to the default >>> FreeBSD fs as I have no plans on using it on a Windows box, ever. >> >> Just checking: you did do a newfs(8), right? >> > > That did it! Thanks (: Never had to run that command before when > formatting a disk (granted all I've ever formatted was a floppy disk on > a Linux box). Good! This is covered in the "Adding disks" section of the "Storage" chapter of the FreeBSD Handbook. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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