Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:35:37 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@TheWorld.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB flash drive support/usage Message-ID: <20041221173537.GA2250@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20041221170647.GB78451@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200412211622.LAA4517585@shell.TheWorld.com> <20041221170647.GB78451@dan.emsphone.com>
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On 2004-12-21 11:06, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:
> In the last episode (Dec 21), Kenneth W Cochran said:
> > I have some questions about the little USB flash drives...
>
>> 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.
Formatting in UFS is possible indeed. I usually have my email stored on
a 256 MB USB stick, formatted in UFS1 :-)
>> 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.
I used fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs. The process is described here:
http://keramida.serverhive.com/weblog/archives/using-a-usb-20-flash-mini-disk-on-freebsd
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