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Date:      Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:28:36 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Jae Carlson <j.carlson@snet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Formating Hard drive
Message-ID:  <20010705162835.A5972@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <005501c10554$40382e60$030aa8c0@my.net>; from j.carlson@snet.net on Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:13:14AM -0400
References:  <005501c10554$40382e60$030aa8c0@my.net>

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----- Original Message -----
From: Jae Carlson <j.carlson@snet.net>
Sent: Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:13:14AM -0400
Subject: Formating Hard drive

> Greetings all,
>     This may seem like a silly question but I am wondering how do I format a
> hard drive?  I knoiw under Linux it is mke2fs <device>  Also how do I create
> the swap partition?  I know when I first set FreeBSD it created one but I
> added a hard drive which I made another swap partition on.

There's an excellent article online at www.freebsd.org which explains
how to format media in FreeBSD.  Enjoy reading it at:

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html

-giorgos

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