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Date:      Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:46:42 +0000
From:      Alexandr <admin@alexandr.fdns.net>
To:        MarC <mar-c@acapulco.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: a little problem!!!!!!
Message-ID:  <20041201134642.GJ859@alexandr.fdns.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041201113710.78126.qmail@cbo.his.ro>
References:  <20041201113710.78126.qmail@cbo.his.ro>

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On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:37:10PM +0200, MarC wrote:
> hello, my name is marc and i'm from Romania.
> I have a little problem: i just bought a laptop Compaq Presario 1200, old 
> laptop, and my operating system is FreeBSD. I wanted to format it and i 
> don't know how. In Bios this feature insn't. Please tell me a list of 
> commands in FreeBSD how do I format my hard-disk....and even other 
> sugestions.ok? 
> 
> Thx for all that and good bye....
> mar-c
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You need newfs utility.
For more info : man newfs

for example 
format floppy:
newffs /dev/fd0

format hard partition:
newffs /dev/ad0s1



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