FreeBSD-USB-Quick-Formatter

USB Quick Formatter is a small tool for quickly formating USB drives – /dev/da* only – on FreeBSD.

Supported filesystems:

• Ext4
• FAT32
• NTFS
• UFS.

Dependencies

• Python 3 – https://www.freshports.org/lang/python3/
• Tkinter – one flavor, for example py311-tkinter – https://www.freshports.org/x11-toolkits/py-tkinter/
• sudo – https://www.freshports.org/security/sudo/
• XTerm – https://www.freshports.org/x11/xterm/
• fusefs-ext2 – https://www.freshports.org/filesystems/ext2/
• fusefs-ntfs – https://www.freshports.org/filesystems/ntfs/.

Please note: mkntfs(8) can not create an NTFS filesystem quickly with the FreeBSD Project-provided package of fusefs-ntfs. You can work around bug 206978 by building your own package with UBLIO disabled.

Run

sudo python3 FreeBSD-USB-Quick-Formatter.py

Select your drive, the format and click on "Run".

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What it does

1. If any partition exists on the chosen device, destroy all partitions on the device
2. add a single slice (MBR) or partition (GPT)
3. create a filesystem.

Preset partition schemes:

• MBR for FAT32 and NTFS
• GPT for Ext4 and UFS.

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