From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 21 17:06:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC63216A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:06:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1C743D1D for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:06:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iBLH6mqx007491; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:06:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:06:48 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Kenneth W Cochran Message-ID: <20041221170647.GB78451@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200412211622.LAA4517585@shell.TheWorld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200412211622.LAA4517585@shell.TheWorld.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB flash drive support/usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:06:58 -0000 In the last episode (Dec 21), Kenneth W Cochran said: > 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. :) > > Do I need any driver(s) besides umass(4) & its required kernel > options? Nope. just what's listed in the EXAMPLES section of the manpage. > Any differences between 4.x and 5.x support for them? 5.x supports more devices, and supports them better :) There are a numbers of quirks entries in umass.c for misbehaving devices. > 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? You can, but FAT32 is definitely the most portable. > 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? Just newfs on /dev/da# should be enough. You can fdisk or disklabel if you want, but if you're not going to boot off it I don't think it buys you anything. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com