RE: Is there the equivalent of a Windows "fast format" for UFS?

2009-12-04 Thread Peter Steele
Okay, thanks for the reply. I know where I need to go from here... -Original Message- From: Maxim Khitrov [mailto:mkhit...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:23 PM To: Peter Steele Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there the equivalent of a Windows "fast f

Re: Is there the equivalent of a Windows "fast format" for UFS?

2009-12-04 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Peter Steele wrote: > I suspect I know the answer to this question but I'll ask it anyway. We're > dealing with some very large disks (11TB raid array) and a newfs operation > takes a significant time. Is there any way to get a volume formatted faster > than the

Is there the equivalent of a Windows "fast format" for UFS?

2009-12-04 Thread Peter Steele
I suspect I know the answer to this question but I'll ask it anyway. We're dealing with some very large disks (11TB raid array) and a newfs operation takes a significant time. Is there any way to get a volume formatted faster than the typical newfs does?