From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 05:44:40 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 5C49B106564A for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 05:44:40 +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 B82608FC19 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 05:44:39 +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 q695iSAa023108; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 07:44:28 +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 q695iSDD023105; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 07:44:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 07:44:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Jerry McAllister In-Reply-To: <20120709032236.GA23760@jerrymc.net> Message-ID: References: <20120708143032.89aad1ea.freebsd@edvax.de> <4FF98AA9.1070308@cran.org.uk> <20120709032236.GA23760@jerrymc.net> 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]); Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:44:29 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Bruce Cran , Polytropon , FreeBSD 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: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:44:40 -0000 > You don't. You wipe the FAT32 with fdisk and make a FreeBSD slice on it. > Then you can bsdlabel it with one partition and newfs it. Or you can repeat 100 times more that you "have to" make fdisk and bsdlabel. you don't, and it doesn't make sense