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Subject: Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
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> A company I worked with were still distributing files on floppy disks as 
> recently as 2009.
quite funny :)

> 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 
only your fault, not FreeBSD. Why you connected your data disk at first 
place.