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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 2014 08:31:18 -0400
From:      Ajtim <lumiwa@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   formating external HD
Message-ID:  <3016878.JpiT52WW0y@lumiwa.farms.net>

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Hi!

My system: FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE (amd64).

I decided to format my external firewire HD. I mounted disk like /dev/da1p0.
Are those commands correct, please?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da bs=1m count=128
newfs -L FreeBSD -O2 -U -m 6 /dev/da1

or I need to use /dev/da1p0?

Thanks in advance,
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ajtiM
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