Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:36:27 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it. [SOLVED] The usb stick is in the trash now. Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508040929270.51177@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <55C0084B.4000209@bananmonarki.se> References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> <55C0084B.4000209@bananmonarki.se>
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Okay. Just to review: When having trouble writing to a USB stick on FreeBSD, the first thing to suspect is old partition metadata. That can be removed with 'gpart destroy'. After that, suspect USB quirks and then hardware problems, in that order. Very little besides gpart(8) and dd(1) should be needed. Maybe usbconfig(8) for USB quirks. I have not found a Linux utility similar to gpart in capability and ease of use. Some Linux utilities can be useful, but don't reach for them until you have tried what is available in FreeBSD. And please be careful about applying Linux remedies in FreeBSD, because they are not identical systems.
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