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
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