Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/ ^ Does that help? -- Regards, Brie A. Gordon Administradora de Sistemas y Ingeniera de LAN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD
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 device!) Best of luck, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD
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 # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt 3. Don't use any file system, use tar (max. UNIX interoperability): # tar cvf /dev/da0 files... Read the newfs manpage. The examples above use da0 as the name of the device associated to the USB stick. Check this via dmesg before eventually running newfs on something important. :-) # dmesg | grep ^da -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD
Yes. Thank you very much. - Original Message 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD? Thank you, Andrei ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/ ^ Does that help? -- Regards, Brie A. Gordon Administradora de Sistemas y Ingeniera de LAN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD
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 typing the commands: fdisk -BI /dev/da0 bsdlabel -w -B /dev/da0s1 newfs /dev/da0s1a If they are going to be used by non-BSD systems, I prefer msdosfs, so I use: fdisk -BI /dev/da0 newfs_msdos /dev/da0s1 The command-line options and what they do will be more obvious if you read the manpages of fdisk(8), bsdlabel(8), newfs(8), and newfs_msdos(8). There is also a nice article online that you will probably find useful: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD
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 /dev/da0s1 newfs /dev/da0s1a If you want to use the USB stick as a whole, you neccessarily don't need to apply a disklabel to access /dev/da0s1a. You can simply format the whole device and use /dev/da0 (which is equivalent to the obsoleted form /dev/da0c, the whole device). So this is completely sufficient: # newfs /dev/da0 A bit more simple. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
