Adam Vande More writes: > Would doing something like: > > gpart list > > help?
Thank you. I have never heard of gpart before so I gave it a try and that helps very much if the drive is already formatted. Most of these drives I plan to encounter will be formatted so this basically solves the problem but it raises a new question. If one does gpart list as suggested and the disk is formatted, one gets exactly the information necessary. I believe it is even the first line of output. It doesn't get better than that. If the disk is not corrected formatted such as might happen with corruption or maybe a new drive, gpart list executes silently and prints nothing on the output. As I said, you answered my question so many thanks. The new question might best be put: Okay, if nothing is there, where did gpart look to see nothing? Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"