From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 29 01:58:50 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C73460 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:58:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@clari.net.au) Received: from pigeon.clari.net.au (pigeon.clari.net.au [203.29.224.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A8A3252 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:58:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.102] (c114-76-1-137.eburwd4.vic.optusnet.com.au [114.76.1.137]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: danny@clari.net.au) by pigeon.clari.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 05B81AA9DC3 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:58:42 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <5154F551.6050904@clari.net.au> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:58:41 +1100 From: Daniel O'Callaghan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where's the metadata? References: <26967.1364520556@server1.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <26967.1364520556@server1.tristatelogic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:58:50 -0000 On 29/03/2013 12:29 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > So what_is_ the best tool for just simply taking some sort of > drive... like a USB flash drive, or any other kind of drive for that > matter... and returning it to it's actual size? Did you try using fdisk? It is probably a standard MBR boot record, not a GEOM one. Just a thought... Danny