Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:24:41 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Andrei Iarus <poni1111@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20080821012441.c3556d2c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <87ljyr479g.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <148960.41144.qm@web51703.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <87ljyr479g.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Just an addition: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:05:31 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: > I usually format my USB sticks by creating a single da0s1 slice and then > one (or more) BSD labels in that slice, by typing the commands: > > fdisk -BI /dev/da0 > bsdlabel -w -B /dev/da0s1 > newfs /dev/da0s1a If you want to use the USB stick as a whole, you neccessarily don't need to apply a disklabel to access /dev/da0s1a. You can simply format the whole device and use /dev/da0 (which is equivalent to the obsoleted form /dev/da0c, "the whole device"). So this is completely sufficient: # newfs /dev/da0 A bit more simple. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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