Hello, I find the openbsd "disk setup" FAQ to not be as helpful as it could be because it does not mention newfs outside of the "Encrypting external disks" section. Creating a filesystem with newfs is a step most people will need to do as part of setting up a disk. Below is a patch which adds a short section "Constructing a filesystem" to the FAQ.
Feedback is welcome. Thanks. -- Currell Index: faq14.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq14.html,v retrieving revision 1.355 diff -u -r1.355 faq14.html --- faq14.html 16 Mar 2017 19:56:31 -0000 1.355 +++ faq14.html 19 Mar 2017 07:33:45 -0000 @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ <li><a href="#intro" >Disks and partitions</a> <li><a href="#fdisk" >Using fdisk</a> <li><a href="#disklabel" >Disk labels</a> +<li><a href="#newfs" >Constructing a filesystem</a> <li><a href="#BootAmd64" >The amd64 boot process</a> <li><a href="#SoftUpdates" >Soft updates</a> <li><a href="#altroot" >Duplicating your root partition: @@ -243,6 +244,24 @@ the label to disk. Therefore, even if the area of the disk containing the disklabel is unreadable, you will be able to mount until the next reboot. + +<h2 id="newfs">Constructing a Filesystem</h2> +Once a disk has been labeled using +<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/disklabel";>disklabel(8)</a>, the next step you +will probably want to take is set up a file system on the disk. +<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/newfs";>newfs(8)</a> is the utility which creates +filesystems.. +To initialize a standard openbsd filesystem on a new disklabel partion wd1d, +run the following command: + +<blockquote><pre> +# <b>newfs wd1d</b> +/dev/rwd1d: 2861587.2MB in 5860530880 sectors of 512 bytes +876 cylinder groups of 3266.88MB, 52270 blocks, 104704 inodes each +</pre></blockquote> + +<a href="http://man.openbsd.org/newfs";>newfs(8)</a> supports a number of +optional flags and options. See the man page for more information. <h2 id="BootAmd64">The amd64 boot process</h2>
