I am extremely sorry, i got mixed up between disklabel and fdisk. In disklabel -E when it asks for fstype just type msdos and proceed.
On 11/6/10, k3.karthic <[email protected]> wrote: > You have the basic steps right, you need to set the fstype to msdos > using disklabel. After starting disklabel -E edit the slice a. The > first question it will ask you is the fstype, type "?" and you will > get a list of filesystems that you can set. To use a particular one > just type the hex code that appears on the left of the name and press > enter, finish the rest of the prompts and finally save the changes. > > To format the disk with FAT32 you need to create a new filesystem > using newfs. To create a FAT32 filesystem i usually do "newfs -t msdos > /dev/rwd1i". After the command completes your disk is ready to use. > > Hope this helps. > > On 11/6/10, OpenBSD Geek <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I added a second disk to my OpenBSD 4.7 machine. >> i done this : >> fdisk -e w >> I created a first full partition type : 0b >> >> when i type : fdisk wd1, i have the following >> 0: 0B 0 0 1 - 41609 15 63 [ 0: 41942880 ] Win95 >> FAT-32 >> >> Now, i suppose i need a slice to format it. >> disklabel -E wd1 >> I created a slice a but FSTYPE is 4.2BSD. I'm wrong somewhere. >> disklabel wd1a >> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] >> a: 41943040 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 >> c: 41943040 0 unused >> >> How can i proceed to format a disk FAT32 ? >> thanks
