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Date:      Mon, 9 Jul 2012 14:17:43 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207091416470.42151@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <4FFAC578.4050003@cran.org.uk>
References:  <47.B3.06836.B9F4AFF4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> <20120709121608.1bce238e.freebsd@edvax.de> <4FFAC578.4050003@cran.org.uk>

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> Floppy disks aren't partitioned/sliced - they use 'dangerously dedicated'

they use "dangerously obsolete" mode. nobody use them at all.

> disk's empty.  If you're on an old system and run 'gpart show da0' and don't 
> see a partition table it's quite easy to forget to check if da0 itself 
> contains a filesystem.

unless it is a normal way of using it.



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