Subject: Re: Adding a filesystem to a disk
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefan_Kr=FCger?= <skrueger@meinberlikomm.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/27/2004 23:20:18
Brian Rose wrote:
> I have an external disk and I would like to add a filesystem to it. All 
> the documentation concerns only adding a new ffs partition. Nothing 
> about the other supported filesystems.
> 
> So my question is...
> 
> How do I find out the details of the various filesystems that NetBSD 
> supports? For example, I'd use fdisk to create a FAT32 filesystem, but I 
> cannot figure out what the sysid is. 'man fdisk' yields no results, and 
> I cannot find it elsewhere.
$ man fdisk
...
id_number [...]
Use fdisk -l to list the known partition types.
[...]

take care,
SK