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Cc: Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>,
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Subject: Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
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>> Magdeburg, Germany
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> I have used gpart to partition a USB flash drive into FreeBSD boot partition, root partition and swap partition.

making swap partition on USB pendrive is at least stupid. if you won't 
swap at all - wasted space.
If you will it would be so slow and wear USB pendrive so quickly that you 
certainly don't want this.


bsdlabel -w device

bsdabel -e  device and make "a" partition start from 0 to end, 4.2BSD

newfs it

bsdlabel -B

and put everything in one partition.

make heavy use of tmpfs, make sure noatime is put in fstab to limit writes 
to pendrive.