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

[Bill Moran]

Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:

> 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.

I don't think so.  At the most, you may have to use fdisk to change the
partition type from ext2 to ufs, but newfs may do that for you.  I can't
see any need to repartition in any event.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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