Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:03:06 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart Message-ID: <20120709160306.GA27228@jerrymc.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207090743520.23075@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <BLU0-SMTP96EE9BFC96D3D905EA7D7493ED0@phx.gbl> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207072029150.45162@wonkity.com> <BLU0-SMTP10303882837C7BA6EAE3BDE93EC0@phx.gbl> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207081412460.1745@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20120708143032.89aad1ea.freebsd@edvax.de> <4FF98AA9.1070308@cran.org.uk> <20120709032236.GA23760@jerrymc.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207090743520.23075@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 07:44:28AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >You don't. You wipe the FAT32 with fdisk and make a FreeBSD slice on it. > >Then you can bsdlabel it with one partition and newfs it. Or you can > > repeat 100 times more that you "have to" make fdisk and bsdlabel. you > don't, and it doesn't make sense You can do many things as indicated in several posts and most of them will work if you want it that way. But, they do not answer the question as posted. Turning the USB stick into a FreeBSD type or mounting it as MSDOSFS does answer that question. I am not sure why the rabid promotion of non-slicing, but it not worth all the extra bandwidth applied to it. ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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