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Date:      Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:29:21 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Marc Frajola <marc@enginet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line?
Message-ID:  <20000228112921.G4601@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002270055190.63350-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
References:  <200002262003.MAA13658@enginet.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002270055190.63350-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On Sunday, 27 February 2000 at  0:59:30 -0800, Doug White wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Marc Frajola wrote:
>
>> Hi...
>>
>>     I have spent a bit of time messing around with the command-line
>> fdisk and disklabel commands, and have been unable to setup a proper
>> fdisk and FreeBSD partition label solely from the command line.
>
> Somebody didn't check the usual places! :)
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/
>
> Also if you are on a recent (3.4?) -STABLE or -CURRENT you have the
> dangerous yet handy fdisk -e option.

fdisk -e is doubly dangerous.  OpenBSD uses -e to mean "edit the
label".  In FreeBSD, it's more like "eradicate the label".

Greg
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