Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:21:00 +0000 From: "Bullet 446" <bullet446@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Zero-Fill format before installation Message-ID: <786a1e4f0810280321w7aa8894fnb736fa4c83d3ef5e@mail.gmail.com>
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I have a remote machine with KVM access that I'd like to format and reinstall FreeBSD 7.0. I've succeded in formatting /dev/ad6 but not the main drive, /dev/ad4. Is it possbile to zero-fill format during the installation instead of simply deleting and recreating partitions? I've tried booting into single user mode without any success: # umount -a umount: /cdrom: not a file system root directory umount: /var: not a file system root directory umount: /usr: not a file system root directory umount: /tmp: not a file system root directory # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 dd: /dev/ad4: Operation not permitted
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