From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sun Sep 20 05:37:15 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A430AA0151F for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 05:37:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery.b@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-x22a.google.com (mail-wi0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E1151D8C for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2015 05:37:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery.b@gmail.com) Received: by wicgb1 with SMTP id gb1so75891638wic.1 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 22:37:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=STKqhAcG0kLr8+XLyTxFFYhn5ricWcXNFG7IXR/RCDw=; b=TRt2RmCb5QI788X4+GROMwy+lxljDmxAiWifSEbuipG27G2KEI0zK2xqrAEYfhWYrG HDgcNMqaDbioASIVgSrPcU6pg9CbhtA4M7rTopDI+bC7BcPGjWI0dPQY8WrEhV2rN/th xcWu/CjmDfoGoRGHWjKB/Z4FUNZvf3ZjF4wzHfLmBIatDNVAeQU0SZLxYr5j1FY8n4QP MlMxi4H9s104CSCIC/Wmoq5sIqTym1Bv5cRHPHuI/SbtCSDf9MXVTvuL5e1l2noJDgmE c4RRU3EBjGhRA71wO61S4yUrOTFff5JMHUkT83bRAyvXxTd6+BSg96MSJFC5QCN5H+Qv GQZA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.111.232 with SMTP id il8mr15916921wjb.117.1442727432518; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 22:37:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.27.3.212 with HTTP; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 22:37:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150920045519.GA2474@faust.sbb.rs> References: <20150920045519.GA2474@faust.sbb.rs> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 01:37:12 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: fat32 question From: Brandon Allbery To: Zoran Kolic Cc: freebsd-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 05:37:15 -0000 On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Zoran Kolic wrote: > I have a device to which I'd like to connect otg cable > and insert 16gb usb stick. Tried "newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0". > This was probably a mistake; USB sticks are partitioned, and you wiped out the partition table by using da0 instead of e.g. da0s1. Most other systems --- and automount utilities even for FreeBSD --- won't understand it any more. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net