Re: USB flash drive

From: Benjamin Walkenhorst (krylon_at_gmx.net)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:23:54 +0200

Hello,

Steve Blinkhorn wrote:

> I got the key information by email, so here it is for archival
> purposes.
>
> The USB flash drives I have have no NetBSD label on them. So to work
> with them it is necessary to use mbrlabel(8). Simple as that (though
> not *obvious*, since other BSDs have been able to mount MS-DOS file
> systems without this explicit step).

Thanks, that's good to know. I have ~3GB-USB-HDD I use for backup on my
NetBSD-machine. When I got it, it was preformatted with FAT32, and I
just could not get to read it.
However, since I only use it on that machine, I created a disklabel and
a filesystem...

Kind regards,
Benjamin