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Message   Sean Dennis    All   Formatting USB drives with FAT32 under FreeBSD   May 5, 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:

===
#!/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

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