Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:45:53 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@TheWorld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB flash drive support/usage Message-ID: <20041221164553.GD618@nosferatu.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <200412211622.LAA4517585@shell.TheWorld.com> References: <200412211622.LAA4517585@shell.TheWorld.com>
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:22:30AM -0500, Kenneth W Cochran wrote: > Hello: > > I have some questions about the little USB flash drives... > > Is there a FAQ or some documentation on them? So far I haven't > found much in the Handbook or manpages. Pointers welcome. :) > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html > Do I need any driver(s) besides umass(4) & its required kernel options? > > Any differences between 4.x and 5.x support for them? > > Apparently they come setup for a FAT32 filesystem - can I format > them for other filesystems (e.g. linux-ext2, BSD UFS/UFS2, MS > NTFS) & expect them to work reliably? > > Assuming they work (well) with FreeBSD, how do I properly set > them up for UFS/UFS2? Do I need to fdisk and {disk,bsd}label first? > [...] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html Marc
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