previously on this list Z contributed:

> In brief, I was trying to format a usb stick as ext2, and was going back
> and forth between linux and openbsd to get it working on both (I'm
> fairly new to openbsd). The disklabel I ended up with is pasted below.
> It seems misconfigured,

forgot to say make sure you zero atleast the first megabyte of the usb
if your having problems.

/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd?c 

wait a few seconds then press ^C (control-C)

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