Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 09:49:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com> Cc: Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207080947470.1560@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <7E.91.25131.DEDA8FF4@smtp01.insight.synacor.com> References: <7E.91.25131.DEDA8FF4@smtp01.insight.synacor.com>
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>> Magdeburg, Germany > > I have used gpart to partition a USB flash drive into FreeBSD boot partition, root partition and swap partition. making swap partition on USB pendrive is at least stupid. if you won't swap at all - wasted space. If you will it would be so slow and wear USB pendrive so quickly that you certainly don't want this. bsdlabel -w device bsdabel -e device and make "a" partition start from 0 to end, 4.2BSD newfs it bsdlabel -B and put everything in one partition. make heavy use of tmpfs, make sure noatime is put in fstab to limit writes to pendrive.
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