From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 8 13:27:07 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0E0106566C for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 13:27:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [93.89.92.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2638FC0A for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 13:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BE2E6565; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 14:28:30 +0100 (BST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=mail; bh=neyQFAnp+C4f Vq4vq1K2rhQmdI8=; b=t5geIHjah1/iN/zyf5Ak5hvCbSgPtyRtQx6lg98ij/iV 7SOFC/IlUpKtqlpIeWi4sgNYLSmJnC/NlJGFv78jYrf3Fa3Br5S1NiGowQkxcCfg vtsY2kysBshBxFEKMJGWrbuZEAiOSGG+7AADXkW97gTR4OmLs9WORUPYAD6rXTQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=cran.org.uk; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=mail; b=GfHS/H wWJgVOVevuPoc60+nKbrVXxP8VUaPTh5K2mZv3BWOd3530gPhOeNGpZ+r9Ok4wNR QkPNLMRTxR1M1GxH5HvIArLmT8SLlNO1AfVyvHwVgsMNU9KTgA59zlP3teO1vaQl r0upNHKbfh7nDAVetlWt802OKART9icp68lb4= Received: from [192.168.2.11] (unknown [93.89.81.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ACC0DE650D; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 14:28:30 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4FF98AA9.1070308@cran.org.uk> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:27:05 +0100 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <20120708143032.89aad1ea.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20120708143032.89aad1ea.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Wojciech Puchar , FreeBSD Subject: Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 13:27:07 -0000 On 08/07/2012 13:30, Polytropon wrote: > With few routine, tasks are performed more natural using > the desired CLI tools. You don't go "Now I have to remember > which command to format the disk", you just format the disk, > which means "spaking to" newfs. The more often you do it, > the more obvious the tools are, and they won't change in > look and feel (or options). That makes them superior. How do you format a FAT32 partition? newfs won't work. Is it newfs_vfat, newfs_fat32, newfs_msdos etc.? And how do you specify you want FAT32 instead of FAT12 or FAT16? With a good GUI tool like diskmgmt.msc in Windows 2008 you simply right-click the partition and click "New Volume" to create a new partition, or "Format" to format it - and then follow the prompts. Of course using diskpart is faster if you know the commands and parameters, but for an ordinary user adding a new disk maybe once a year it's most likely more efficient to just use the GUI. -- Bruce Cran