From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 12:31:21 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 846FE142 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-x231.google.com (mail-qc0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 444E17A5 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f177.google.com with SMTP id w7so8668670qcr.8 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 05:31:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:reply-to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=Y8YfqPsjZ3WKbrcCxuc82lh1pCcAAqMjT/2y4t7Ksyo=; b=lkvM5iQ2ppv88ta/Ehr3arsPlMq72GyTnBDJzlPKRx747nVz1MMqRK0/MP2V7E6Mi8 2WRiCUvGyEYkqkZqsvVjA7bSgxNYZZiQgCUrk8KD728/U6kT85qUAUQyeQBbq6UM8/xq Jzjs9c6mJDGCytVbqqku4xzMKOQ1xwgnK1jd5XlkrkROVRJ/Gm82IFCatNHTRkuVhnKt iKIH2+4lvZq58jrYrLsXgCs3xT+cl6VqSh8Z2/QbZuCes5+ZzkXMINT3CUt3uLPkHR4L rQ/7lXNeO5vkF3mbzdkGhP7fzDaBfaiIdS7gFQfhSx8/dsv6qbk4jrf9/K44a3kT4z7d UOWw== X-Received: by 10.140.35.177 with SMTP id n46mr1483914qgn.110.1396269080416; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 05:31:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lumiwa.farms.net (pool-70-105-237-67.port.east.myfairpoint.net. [70.105.237.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f76sm10840850qge.11.2014.03.31.05.31.19 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 31 Mar 2014 05:31:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Ajtim To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: formating external HD Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 08:31:18 -0400 Message-ID: <3016878.JpiT52WW0y@lumiwa.farms.net> User-Agent: KMail/4.12.3 (FreeBSD/10.0-RELEASE; KDE/4.12.3; amd64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: lumiwa@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:31:21 -0000 Hi! My system: FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE (amd64). I decided to format my external firewire HD. I mounted disk like /dev/da1p0. Are those commands correct, please? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da bs=1m count=128 newfs -L FreeBSD -O2 -U -m 6 /dev/da1 or I need to use /dev/da1p0? Thanks in advance, -- ajtiM -------- http://www.redbubble.com/people/lumiwa