From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 14:15:10 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 6CC8D1065675 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 14:15:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4AD18FC12 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2012 14:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q69EF3IH088839; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:15:03 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:15:03 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Bruce Cran In-Reply-To: <4FF9E6E8.2070306@cran.org.uk> Message-ID: <20120709145041.Q42038@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20120708120028.85CA7106568C@hub.freebsd.org> <20120708233300.J42038@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <4FF9E6E8.2070306@cran.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:15:10 -0000 On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 21:00:40 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 08/07/2012 16:06, Ian Smith wrote: > > In general they're not distinct in usage from any other type of disk. > > The more expensive disks of course support TRIM so you'd want to pass -t to > newfs to enable it. Thanks. Next time I blow around AU$455 on a 120GB flashdrive, I'll be glad to be better informed about getting the most out of it :) At least with sysinstall|sade you can set extra newfs options such as -t, and as importantly for me, you can toggle whether or not to newfs particular partition/s, such as leaving say /home alone on an existing partitioning, which didn't seem straightforward with bsdinstall last I tried (admittedly at 9.0-BETA1) but I've not followed later updates. I might take Matthew's suggestion and try the PCBSD 9 installer; I did boot a PCBSD 8 memstick at one stage, and was surprisingly impressed - or I could use freebsd-update instead of sources to go from 7.4 to 9.1 "It's the options that drive ya crazy" -- Silly Symphony C.'83 cheers, Ian