Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:45:17 -0400 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart Message-ID: <7E.91.25131.DEDA8FF4@smtp01.insight.synacor.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:15:10 -0400, Carmel wrote: > > This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on a USB > > flash drive? I have not been able to figure out how to do it. I want to > > erase the entire drive and format it for a FreeBSD UFS2 file system. > In that case, screw slices and partitions 'n stuff. :-) > # newfs /dev/da0 > This is all you need (see "man newfs" and "man tunefs" for > options you might need to optimize utilization, and check > best fitting options for /etc/fstab, e. g. noatime if you > are not going to need it). > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany I have used gpart to partition a USB flash drive into FreeBSD boot partition, root partition and swap partition. I ran newfs on the second (root) partition, even installed FreeBSD built from source, and made the flash drive bootable, both for amd64 and i386. Does a USB flash drive also work as a giant floppy, no partitions? Can you make a flash drive bootable when nonpartitioned and formatted that way? Tom
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?7E.91.25131.DEDA8FF4>