From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 12:26:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2C191065670 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:26:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c40:0:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F8B18FC14 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:26:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB0FE6569; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 13:27:52 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=gNaVu3X6epxM WPStZRWsfweQq0g=; b=u0RVYhNxFvNvwb5PCwk2Ksouet8S+q05jKKhhPqFXi/4 RD2nSnx9jlejpKoA382C/ST7r8pl4i9d94CqJdVQ+sFyeOfTGDTuCSKuoiNderpu Bhkc+nHcSS+E4UJeO8J33ZTfJ/DIFvboKJT5gadOwzkVHgRRuwkcoS2wJfs3U54= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=Mg378l ocytr9NZ6o8wrIfaJQ4lXNCs3PQvMDm3tVOaBFNdd1t0dZugROteH+fPvsSMNyRr K05kIM2RFPxjVsm5RjHd3Ir2ooJ8fEa1/WwY9idomRrJjKHPHwnO/qdEauAERZBf twrAR3njydMaib/pJ1IgwzfDMhMoaupChYJvc= Received: from [192.168.2.11] (unknown [93.89.81.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D8FCE6568; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 13:27:52 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4FFACDF1.4090700@cran.org.uk> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:26:25 +0100 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <47.B3.06836.B9F4AFF4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> <20120709121608.1bce238e.freebsd@edvax.de> <4FFAC578.4050003@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Carmel , Polytropon , Thomas Mueller , 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: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:26:27 -0000 On 09/07/2012 13:17, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > they use "dangerously obsolete" mode. nobody use them at all. A company I worked with were still distributing files on floppy disks as recently as 2009. They _are_ obsolete, but I suspect plenty of people still use them. > unless it is a normal way of using it. That's right - I was thinking of my system where I destroyed all the data on a HDD because it didn't have a partition table. When I ran the FreeBSD installer and saw the disk was 'empty' I forgot it had a filesystem and reformatted it. Obviously people using floppy or USB disks would be more ready for there to be data on the disk without a partition table. -- Bruce Cran