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Subject: Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
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On 08/07/2012 16:06, Ian Smith wrote:
> In general they're not distinct in usage from any other type of disk.

The more expensive disks of course support TRIM so you'd want to pass -t 
to newfs to enable it.

-- 
Bruce Cran