Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:25:48 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: formating external HD - SOLVED Message-ID: <20140331152548.5bba7cd5@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <1692218.G9pFmmA9u9@lumiwa.farms.net> References: <3016878.JpiT52WW0y@lumiwa.farms.net> <1692218.G9pFmmA9u9@lumiwa.farms.net>
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:04:01 -0400 Ajtim wrote: > 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 :). One thing I would add is that these days I set the -i option according to what's going to go on the disk. I think the default inode density has doubled in FreeBSD 10, which is fine for /var and /usr, but for discs that contain a lot of multimedia it wastes a bit more than you gain by -m 6.
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