On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Paul Mather wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Marcel Chukwunenye wrote:
> > 
> > > Shocks! I cannot believe that there is no utility to format
> > > and partition a drive.
> > 
> > There is: the "utility" to "format" a hard drive is called "newfs" and
> > the "utility" to partition it is called "disklabel." :-)
> 
> Smileys aside, could people please try to remember the difference between
> "formatting" and "initializing a file system".

I guess that's why I put "format" in quotes, but not partition.  We're
not all as clueless as we seem. ;-)

Cheers,

Paul.

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