From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 14:04:04 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 BC45FC2E for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x232.google.com (mail-qa0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::232]) (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 7AC60149 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f50.google.com with SMTP id o15so8191556qap.9 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:04:03 -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:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=VyrqDru5FZ7WosjAyN8ji4USviW/htrwMk0zfHPFntA=; b=rkcBjJJJr0D/NAlyKXvc0L9i8unluOlVJtkVxoPsBG5rct7ErzsBdubK6eopHl3GwY BlUL20YSCZXChSwUIIyWSIpiYDrS7NLPxBf5ZDlHpYQ57mvyS/yYzJQevwQB95kbnfkA h/72BrI7NR2W/O0/4uYEA4eQ4l5e2XxuNffeW622VYaYABVZ0q/I4/tc1stPSGGC8eOo Q/o4R0crxJMxDqgDFjP3JAbi0vLx4w7EUKSqJ1Abi+/5PqdzRfSW5sh1iZgkIDkf7evg aywkVr/478yvVtjyCQzPj51RgFZy1yHwNQQsNm26m1fuUS/iD1HF7yAtrp3cPIzWrRDU TLUQ== X-Received: by 10.140.86.36 with SMTP id o33mr7868827qgd.67.1396274643649; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:04:03 -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 w35sm19647023qgw.4.2014.03.31.07.04.02 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:04:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Ajtim To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: formating external HD - SOLVED Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:04:01 -0400 Message-ID: <1692218.G9pFmmA9u9@lumiwa.farms.net> User-Agent: KMail/4.12.3 (FreeBSD/10.0-RELEASE; KDE/4.12.3; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <3016878.JpiT52WW0y@lumiwa.farms.net> References: <3016878.JpiT52WW0y@lumiwa.farms.net> 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 14:04:04 -0000 On Monday 31 March 2014 08:31:18 Ajtim wrote: > 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, Thanks to the authors of http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2010/06/freebsd-how-to-format-partition.html it took just few minutes and it is done :). -- ajtiM -------- http://www.redbubble.com/people/lumiwa