From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Aug 4 18:42:43 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 7A6309951BE for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:42:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from douhisi.pair.com (douhisi.pair.com [209.68.5.179]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 57433110D for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:42:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from [10.2.2.1] (pool-173-48-121-235.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [173.48.121.235]) by douhisi.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E277B3F6EA for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:42:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <55C1079F.5030608@sneakertech.com> Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:42:39 -0400 From: Quartz MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB stick and some help with it. [SOLVED] The usb stick is in the trash now. References: <55BF6AA0.2030802@bananmonarki.se> <55C0084B.4000209@bananmonarki.se> <55C0E688.3000203@sneakertech.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 18:42:43 -0000 > I thought GParted live was based around parted. It is, but I mistakenly thought that [lib]parted was in turn based off of gpart (it's not). > Okay. Can you point me to a man page or utility distribution with that > version of gpart for Linux? Gparted Live: gpart v0.2.1 (c) 1999-2001 Michail Brzitwa It also has gdisk and sgdisk, which can be slightly more useful in some situations. When it comes to 'flatlining' a drive, I usually use sgdisk since the -Z option will blow away all partition schemes and backup headers in one shot (mbr+gpt+whatever). >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. Well, the whole reason this thread got started is because he couldn't dd his usb drive. I suggested booting off a live linux cd just to double check if it was a hardware issue or if his copy of FreeBSD was corrupt. I suggested a linux live cd mainly because it was simple and will have a lot of utilities out of the box without needing to mess around (vs the FreeBSD installer images).