Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 19:27:59 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart Message-ID: <20120707192759.47796c1e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP96EE9BFC96D3D905EA7D7493ED0@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP96EE9BFC96D3D905EA7D7493ED0@phx.gbl>
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:15:10 -0400, Carmel wrote: > This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on a USB > flash drive? I have not been able to figure out how to do it. I want to > erase the entire drive and format it for a FreeBSD UFS2 file system. In that case, screw slices and partitions 'n stuff. :-) # newfs /dev/da0 This is all you need (see "man newfs" and "man tunefs" for options you might need to optimize utilization, and check best fitting options for /etc/fstab, e. g. noatime if you are not going to need it). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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