Subject: Re: another thing I need help with (this should be easier)
To: Luc Martineau <lpmartineau@yahoo.com>
From: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/28/2004 15:03:31
Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:26:40PM -0400, Luc Martineau:
> Thanks for the link it is helpfull.
> I am not understanding Disklabel too well though. I
> did read about it and tried a few things.
> my second disk (Seagate ScSi 4.0 gig) is SD1
> I want to basicly "format" it all (clean it up as it
> may have solaris file system on it) and make it work
> as two partitions under net bsd, a 1 gig Swap file and
> a 3 gig /home2 partition or something of the likes.;
> 
> what is the best way to accomplish this using
> Disklabel and other tools. I read threw the various
> examples and tags but I am getting a bit confused.

for the last drive I added to my box, iirc I did:

	disklabel -iI sd2
		<altered the partition table as I liked>
	newfs sd2g

for low level format, see scsictl(8).