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Formatting USB drive with FAT32 using FreeBSD

Assuming your usb drive is /dev/da0

Using fdisk:

  • Zero disk beginning with
    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=2m count=1
  • Change first partition type to 12 (FAT32)
    fdisk -i /dev/da0
  • Initialize fat32 file system
    newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s1

Using gpart:

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