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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!kettle.magna.com.au!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!mips.infocom.com!josh From: josh@infocom.com (Josh Albertson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: formatting under freebsd? Date: 9 Oct 1995 14:43:03 GMT Organization: infocom, inc. internet services Lines: 10 Message-ID: <45bcdn$83l@mips.infocom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cleo.infocom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I have had little success in formatting drives for freebsd. It is always a pain. I have been told that for large drives that freebsd wants a small dos partition. Even then it isn't necessarily smooth. Is there some neat set of rules that I can follow in formatting a drive. If I could do this without bringing down my system that would be wonderful. Your help is greatly appreciated by this naive freebsd user. Thanks much, Josh josh@infocom.com