On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD?
Thank you,
Andrei
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD?
Thank you,
Andrei
You should be able to use the partition and disklabel modules in
sysinstall. (Make sure you know the device name so you don't partition the
wrong
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 08:49:53AM -0700, Andrei Iarus wrote:
Hello,
How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD?
Thank you,
Andrei
Just like any other device.
Or, if it already has an MSDOS filesystem on it, then
you can just mount it as type msdosfs and use it like that.
jerry
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:49:53 -0700 (PDT), Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello,
How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD?
Three possibilities in general:
1. Use FreeBSD's UFS file system:
# newfs /dev/da0
2. Use the MS-DOS file system that is present on most sticks by default
Yes. Thank you very much.
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From: Brie Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:21:28 PM
Subject: Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Andrei Iarus
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:49:53 -0700 (PDT), Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello,
How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD?
The same way you can format any other disk.
I usually format my USB sticks by creating a single da0s1 slice and then
one (or more) BSD labels in that slice, by
Just an addition:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:05:31 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
