From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Tue Dec 21 17:35:41 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 808A216A4CE
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:35:41 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from aiolos.otenet.gr (aiolos.otenet.gr [195.170.0.23])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D00343D2F
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:35:40 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr)
Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr
	[62.103.39.226])iBLHZbsI027734;	Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:35:37 +0200
Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (orion [127.0.0.1])
	iBLHZbrM002327;	Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:35:37 +0200 (EET)
	(envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr)
Received: (from keramida@localhost)iBLHZb94002326;
	Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:35:37 +0200 (EET)
	(envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:35:37 +0200
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@TheWorld.com>
Message-ID: <20041221173537.GA2250@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
References: <200412211622.LAA4517585@shell.TheWorld.com>
	<20041221170647.GB78451@dan.emsphone.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20041221170647.GB78451@dan.emsphone.com>
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 <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:35:41 -0000

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