Re: formating a disk
- From: Albert Shih <shih@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:34:16 +0200
Le 30/03/2006 20:19:17-0500, Jerry McAllister a écrit
I wonder what exactly you mean by 'format'.
We don't tend to use that word to mean making slices (fdisk),
partitions (disklabel/bsdlabel) or file systems (newfs).
Well the purpose is of course newfs.
Usually format refers to something done at the very low leval of
the drive and is normally only done at the manufacturer nowdays.
I expect you mean one or more of the others, but cannot say.
But, anyway, that is what you need to do - in that order.
fdisk, disk/abel/bsdlabel, newfs
So, try and explain what you have done using these utilities if
you have and if you haven't, then check them out and see if
that helps. If you really did a "format" under XP, then I think
you can just start over with fdisk, but I haven't tried that on
a hard disk much less a firewire device.
First I try to edit the slice with fdisk but when he need to write I've
got
Information from DOS bootblock is:
1: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 156296322 (76316 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 1/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 512/ head 254/ sector 63
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>
4: <UNUSED>
Should we write new partition table? [n] y
fdisk: Geom not found
[root@freebsd1 rc.d]#
What's that mean ?
How can I fix that ?
Lots of thanks
Regards.
--
Albert SHIH
Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
Heure local/Local time:
Fri Mar 31 06:31:34 CEST 2006
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