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Ansible scripts, help me remember HOW TO partition a USB SSD disk.

Ansible scripts,  help me remember HOW TO partition a USB SSD disk.  Use Ansible to save scripts to  partition a 500GB USB SSD for a Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard model, running  FreeBSD ( well GhostBSD-Arm64 in the future,  anticipation ) Based on this article HowTo  Ansible with FreeBSD,    https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-prepare-freebsd-server-to-be-managed-by-ansible-tool/   OTHER Ansible URLs:   https://duckduckgo.com/?q=freebsd+ansible+core&ia=web https://nickgeorge.net/bootstrap-ansible-freebsd/   Bootstrap Ansible on FreeBSD; good play books https://www.adminbyaccident.com/freebsd/how-to-freebsd/how-to-install-ansible-on-freebsd/  Install ansible on FreeBSD,  admin by accident   https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=FreeBSD_14&p=ansible&f=1#google_vignette FreeBSD 14 install ansible  April 2024 https://docs.ansible.com/projects/ansible-core/2.19/os_guide/intro_bsd.html   ...

Downloading FreeBSD 14.2 RELEASE image for Raspberry Pi (3/4). dd write to a MicroSD card

Using Linux to download FreeBSD 14.2 image and dd write image to USB flash drive stick at /dev/sdb or to /dev/mmcblk0   microSD card. First get the Linux shell script image file from this location. wget -c http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/write_using_Linux_a_freebsd_img_dd_to_sdX.sh   --2025-05-06 21:26:07--  http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/write_using_Linux_a_freebsd_img_dd_to_sdX.sh Resolving ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org (ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org)... 67.171.248.137 Connecting to ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org (ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org)|67.171.248.137|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 6795 (6.6K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘write_using_Linux_a_freebsd_img_dd_to_sdX.sh’ write_using_Linux_a_freebsd_img_dd_to 100%[=======================================================================>]   6.64K  --.-KB/s    in 0.02s    2025-05-06 21:26:07 (266 KB/s) - ‘write_using...