formatting an external hardrive

the.phule the.phule at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 19:59:11 CET 2009


Evening All,

I just purchased a new external USB harddrive (maxtor 500Gb Basics)
and plugging in into my 4.4 box I have got stuck it isnt formatted to
a FAT32 format it's ntfs. disclabel gives the following:


# disklabel -E /dev/rsd0c
disklabel: warning, DOS partition table with no valid OpenBSD partition
Treating sectors 63-976773168 as the OpenBSD portion of the disk.
You can use the 'b' command to change this.

Initial label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt)
> p
OpenBSD area: 63-976773168; size: 976773105; free: 5103
#                size           offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  c:        976773168                0  unused      0     0
  i:        976768002               63    NTFS

Can I just use disclabel to delete the i entry and add an "MSDOS" format type?

Cheers for any help

Kim


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