From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 4 17:39:26 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69CD09B3F46 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 17:39:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 284A282D for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 17:39:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id t74HdOTd094900 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 11:39:24 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id t74HdOIY094897; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 11:39:24 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 11:39:24 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Quartz cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it. [SOLVED] The usb stick is in the trash now. In-Reply-To: <55C0E688.3000203@sneakertech.com> Message-ID: References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> <55C0084B.4000209@bananmonarki.se> <55C0E688.3000203@sneakertech.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 04 Aug 2015 11:39:24 -0600 (MDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 17:39:26 -0000 On Tue, 4 Aug 2015, Quartz wrote: >> I have not found a Linux utility similar to gpart > > Umm.... you do know that linux has gpart too, right? Like, it's a standard > part of most distros, and it's what GParted Live is based around? I thought GParted live was based around parted. Either way, having the same name does not mean they have the same capabilities or the same user interface. But no, I don't think there has been a gpart program on the Linux utility disks I use. For partitioning, they usually have two or three menu-based programs and cfdisk. > But ignoring that for the moment, there are a bunch of other programs that do > all the same things in basically the same way. For example, "sgdisk -Z > /dev/sda" and "gpart destroy /dev/sda" both nuke the partition information > for a given disk. Okay. Can you point me to a man page or utility distribution with that version of gpart for Linux? The man pages I've found seem to be for a very old utility that reconstructs partition tables. >> Some Linux utilities can be useful, but don't reach for them >> until you have tried what is available in FreeBSD. > > It's not like FreeBSD has some kind of monopoly GPT stuff or useful disk > utilities, any other *nix OS has pretty much all the same tools. True. On the other hand, my experience is that FreeBSD generally handles those things in a more useful way. And I don't see the point in grabbing a Linux utility disk when FreeBSD is already running and has the tools for the job.