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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