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  • Formatting USB drives with FAT32 under FreeBSD

    From Sean Dennis@618:618/1 to All on Fri May 5 22:29:26 2023
    Hello All,

    FreeBSD doesn't have an easy way for format drives for FAT32 so I wrote a script to do this:

    ===
    #!/bin/sh
    # A little script to format USB drives with FAT32 under FreeBSD
    # Written by Sean Dennis KS4TD (digimaus)
    # Released under the BSD 3-clause license
    # A copy of this license is available at http://ks4td.us/license.txt
    #
    if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo -e "\nYou must specify a disk label on the command line.\n"
    exit 1
    fi
    read -p "Do you really want to format /dev/da0 [Y/N]? " choice
    case $choice in
    [yY]* ) echo "\nStarting format process...\n"
    gpart destroy -F /dev/da0
    gpart create -s mbr /dev/da0
    gpart add -t fat32 /dev/da0
    newfs_msdos -L $1 -F 32 /dev/da0s1
    echo -e "\nFormatting completed.\n"
    exit ;;
    [nN]* ) echo "\nAborting format process.\n"
    exit 1 ;;
    *) exit ;;
    esac
    ===

    -- Sean

    --- GoldED+/BSD 1.1.5-b20220504
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (618:618/1)
  • From Arelor@618:250/24 to Sean Dennis on Sun May 7 17:13:23 2023
    Re: Formatting USB drives with FAT32 under FreeBSD
    By: Sean Dennis to All on Fri May 05 2023 10:29 pm

    Hello All,

    FreeBSD doesn't have an easy way for format drives for FAT32 so I wrote a script to do this:


    By the look of it, formatting by hand is not that bad :-)

    --
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    --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux
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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/1 to Arelor on Sun May 7 23:39:03 2023
    Hello Arelor,

    07 May 23 17:13, you wrote to me:

    By the look of it, formatting by hand is not that bad :-)

    Not bad but not easy for me to remember...

    -- Sean

    --- GoldED+/BSD 1.1.5-b20220504
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (618:618/1)