[wplug-bsd] Fdisk? formatting ext2 partitions as ufs

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Bill Moran wrote:

> Not that I can imagine.
>
> Here's what I recommend.
> 1) Back up your critical data _off_ this computer.  You're 100% right that
>    it's pretty catastrophic if you format the wrong partition.
> 2) umount the partition you want to reformat.
> 3) Look in /etc/fstab to see what device that partition uses.
> 4) newfs that device (i.e. newfs /dev/ad0s1a ... or whatever the partition
>    name ends up being.)
> 5) Alter /etc/fstab to change ext2 to ufs for that partition.
> 6) Remount and replace your data.
> 7) Rinse and repeat for the next partition.
>

So no fdisk - all I need to do is newfs?  Ahh, that's lovely.

Thx,
Brandon