Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 08:21:12 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207090817351.56012@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4FFAC578.4050003@cran.org.uk> References: <47.B3.06836.B9F4AFF4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> <20120709121608.1bce238e.freebsd@edvax.de> <4FFAC578.4050003@cran.org.uk>
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 09/07/2012 11:16, Polytropon wrote: >> If you're talking about an MS-DOS disk, then yes, it contains >> a DOS partition which is formatted. In FreeBSD, we would call >> it a slice (slice == "DOS primary partition"). In this case, >> there is no (sub)partitioning, the _slice_ carries the MS-DOS >> file system here. You know that MS-DOS does not have support >> for partitioning. > > Floppy disks aren't partitioned/sliced - they use 'dangerously dedicated' > mode, containing nothing except the filesystem. "Dangerously dedicated" refers to a disk with a bsdlabel partition table and boot block. Floppies don't have even that, it's just a raw filesystem.
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