Re: formating a disk

2006-03-31 Thread Albert Shih
Le 31/03/2006 à 06:34:16+0200, Albert Shih a écrit 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). Usually

Re: formating a disk

2006-03-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
Le 31/03/2006 à 06:34:16+0200, Albert Shih a écrit 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).

formating a disk

2006-03-30 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I've strange problem with a external disk (firewire). I don't know how I can format it. I've already format this disk (on my FreeBSD box with newfs), after that I re­format this disk with Windows XP (maybe bad idea ;-) ) and now I cannot format the disk with anything When I try fdisk

Re: formating a disk

2006-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi all I've strange problem with a external disk (firewire). I don't know how I can format it. I've already format this disk (on my FreeBSD box with newfs), after that I re­format this disk with Windows XP (maybe bad idea ;-) ) and now I cannot format the disk with anything When I

Re: formating a disk

2006-03-30 Thread Albert Shih
Le 30/03/2006 20:19:17-0500, Jerry McAllister a ?crit 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