From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 17:23:50 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 34643598 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:23:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.44.142]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF9ACF0B for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:23:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway.dreamchaser.org. [12.32.36.73]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id s8GHNjcC091643 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:23:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Message-ID: <54187221.9030500@dreamchaser.org> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:23:45 -0600 From: Gary Aitken Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: gpart -- label an ntfs partition on usb stick? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.36.65]); Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:23:46 -0600 (MDT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 17:23:50 -0000 I'm trying to reformat a USB stick to take large files. It was my understanding that gpart could do this, and that the proper file type was ntfs. It seems to work with no label, but when I attempt to label the partition, it objects. I thought the label was part of the partitioning scheme, and as such should be independent of the partition type. What am I missing? # gpart show -l da0 => 1 125031679 da0 MBR (59G) 1 31 - free - (15k) 32 125031648 1 (null) (59G) # gpart delete -i 1 da0 da0s1 deleted # gpart show -l da0 => 1 125031679 da0 MBR (59G) 1 125031679 - free - (59G) # gpart add -t ntfs -l ntfs da0 gpart: Invalid argument # gpart add -t ntfs da0 da0s1 added # gpart show -l da0 => 1 125031679 da0 MBR (59G) 1 62 - free - (31k) 63 125031564 1 (null) (59G) 125031627 53 - free - (26k)