Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:31:01 -0400 From: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it. [SOLVED] The usb stick is in the trash now. Message-ID: <55C104E5.7030208@sneakertech.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BtpaK3Qa%2Bqy%2BvyZ3G8iHs4fLyB=Xr7eeuyHDax3s66_wEdsUg@mail.gmail.com> References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> <55C0084B.4000209@bananmonarki.se> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508040929270.51177@wonkity.com> <55C0E688.3000203@sneakertech.com> <CA%2BtpaK3Qa%2Bqy%2BvyZ3G8iHs4fLyB=Xr7eeuyHDax3s66_wEdsUg@mail.gmail.com>
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> GEOM writes it's metadata at the end of the > block dev for many things which also conflicts with GPT. This and other > metadata conflict issues using either ufs or zfs based filesystems make > gpart(8) not only the best tool, in many cases it's the only tool that > can do it correctly short of a complete zeroing out of the block dev. I mean..... I guess? It's not like it's hard to specify a seek parameter with dd and just nuke the last 1mb of the disk.
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