Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:18:13 -0400 From: Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Reformatting external harddrive Message-ID: <b6c05a470905111818ja0ddd76yd5742e4fbfa54bf2@mail.gmail.com>
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After unsuccessfully trying to reformat my external harddrive on my
linux machine, I'm trying to reformat the disk in FreeBSD. Frankly, I
just don't know how to do that. Please help me get the disk back to
working order; I don't need to keep any data that is currently on the
disk.
The command
$ /dev/da0
gives the following output:
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=38913 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=38913 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 625137282 (305242 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 0/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
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