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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:04:01 -0400
From:      Ajtim <lumiwa@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: formating external HD - SOLVED
Message-ID:  <1692218.G9pFmmA9u9@lumiwa.farms.net>
In-Reply-To: <3016878.JpiT52WW0y@lumiwa.farms.net>
References:  <3016878.JpiT52WW0y@lumiwa.farms.net>

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On Monday 31 March 2014 08:31:18 Ajtim wrote:
> 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,

Thanks to the authors of 
http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2010/06/freebsd-how-to-format-partition.html

it took just few minutes and it is done :).

-- 
ajtiM
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