Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:30:04 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CLI filesystem format tool Message-ID: <20070430003004.GA19298@demeter.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20070429221638.GA33593@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070429215319.GA18753@demeter.hydra> <20070429221638.GA33593@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 06:16:39PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 03:53:19PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > > Is there a simple command line tool in FreeBSD for creating a filesystem > > on an already extant slice? > > > > I'm working on a system with three main slices -- ad0s1, ad0s2, and > > ad0s3. The ad0s2 slice is further split up into the default parts of a > > FreeBSD install. The ad0s1 slice is in use by another OS. The ad0s3 > > slice has nothing of value on it, and I want to make it a FreeBSD-native > > filesystem then mount it at /usr/home. > > > > I've been hoping to find something akin to the Linux tool mkfs for this > > purpose, but so far have come up empty. Isn't there something that > > works similarly to that? Example: > > > > command /dev/ad0s3 fstype > > newfs Thanks. That's exactly what I needed. It doesn't seem to show up for any of the usual suspect search terms with apropos. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
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