Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 13:27:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Format disk Message-ID: <19980206132732.19756@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <01BD3277.64284660@fast1>; from Frank Griffith on Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 08:48:18PM -0600 References: <01BD3277.64284660@fast1>
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On Thu, 5 February 1998 at 20:48:18 -0600, Frank Griffith wrote: > I have added another hard drive to my FreeBSD 2.2.5 system. > It was one I used earlier to install the FreeBSD system. It is > now running as a slave to another identical drive which is > running FreeBSD 2.2.5. > > I can mount this drive and see it, but it still has the operating > system and file system from the previous installs. I would > like to clear it off and make one or two directories on it. > > What's the best way to attack this one? If you want to get rid of *everything* on the partition, just run newfs on it. If you want to repartition the disk, you can use /stand/sysinstall to partition it first. Greg
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