From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 8 16:52:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3384A106566C for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 16:52:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [89.206.35.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7DA8FC15 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 16:52:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q68GqWNO020741; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 18:52:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q68GqTcc020738; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 18:52:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 18:52:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Ian Smith In-Reply-To: <20120708233300.J42038@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Message-ID: References: <20120708120028.85CA7106568C@hub.freebsd.org> <20120708233300.J42038@sola.nimnet.asn.au> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:52:36 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Carmel , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:52:48 -0000 > I know your question specified gpart, but the easiest way I know of to > put UFS filesystems on flash drives is to use sade(8), incorporating the the easiest way to put UFS filesystem on flash drives is to ... put UFS filesystem using newfs command. You DO NOT NEED any partitioning.