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From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>
To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@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