On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 20:36:36 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block articulated: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Carmel wrote: > > > This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on a USB > > flash drive? I have not been able to figure out how to do it. I > > want to erase the entire drive and format it for a FreeBSD UFS2 > > file system. > > Yes, gpart will work with pretty much any storage device. > > If you want the drive to be bootable, it needs boot blocks. This is > easier with GPT than MBR. For an 8G drive: > > # gpart create -s gpt da0 > # gpart add -t freebsd-boot -s 512k da0 > # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 da0 > # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -b 1M -s 7G da0 > # gpart add -t freebsd-swap da0 > # newfs -U /dev/da0p2
Thanks Warren, you win the prize for the most detailed answer. Polytropon gave me the easiest answer if I just want to use the drive as a simple storage device; however, if at some point I actually want to go beyond that your answer is what I would require. Interestingly enough, I searched through the man pages and FreeBSD help but never came across anything that specifically addressed flash drive. Perhaps I was just not looking hard enough. Perhaps, and I know that this will offend some purists, but a nice GUI that would do what your instructions detail above would be helpful. There is no way that I am going to remember all of those instructions in six months time. Just my 2¢. -- Carmel ✌ carmel...@hotmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
