Re: CLI filesystem format tool

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 06:16:39PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 03:53:19PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
Is there a simple command line tool in FreeBSD for creating a filesystem
on an already extant slice?

I'm working on a system with three main slices -- ad0s1, ad0s2, and
ad0s3. The ad0s2 slice is further split up into the default parts of a
FreeBSD install. The ad0s1 slice is in use by another OS. The ad0s3
slice has nothing of value on it, and I want to make it a FreeBSD-native
filesystem then mount it at /usr/home.

I've been hoping to find something akin to the Linux tool mkfs for this
purpose, but so far have come up empty. Isn't there something that
works similarly to that? Example:

I would suggest that you first use bsdlabel to create a single partition
on that slice. You can use the a: partition, or if you feel squimish
about using that one that is traditionally used for root, then use
the d: partition. Do this:

bsdlabel -w ad0s3 To initialize a partition label, then
bsdlabel -e ad0s3

You enter an edit more. Just duplicate the c: line
--Do NOT change the c: line--
edit that duplicate line and make it a: or d: or whatever.
Change the tuype to BSD4.2
You can add values for [fsize bsize bps/cpg], maybe to:
2048 16384 28552
But I think you can just leave them blank.
write/quit the edit session and the label is written.

Then you need to run newfs on that new partition.

newfs /dev/ad0s3a or newfs /dev/ad0s3d if you named it d:

Then, just edit /etc/fstab to make it mount at boot time
and mount it up. If you already have stuff in /home, then you will
need to make one of them a temporary mount somewhere to move stuff over.

////jerry


command /dev/ad0s3 fstype

newfs

Kris
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