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19-06-2007, 08:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
anantkhaitan Burning Bright Join Date: May 2006 Location: NIT, Bhopal Posts: 266	Formatting USB Drives in GNU/Linux Guide me how do I format any media device be it a hard disk partition or USB drive? After a bit of Googling I got mkfs : Linux/Unix used to build a Linux file system on a device. And after going through man pages I issues this for my pen drive: Code: mkfs -t vfat -F32 /dev/sda1 But unfortunately : "command not found" I am also not getting any package from where I can install it. (if anyone can give me a link) Avoid GParted Live CD __________________ ..::Fedora ::.. Freedom + Infinity + Speech Registered Linux User #447318 GNUger was here.... Grrr.... Maah! Blog http://brightedges.blogspot.com/

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19-06-2007, 09:12 PM	#2 (permalink)
praka123 left this forum longback Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: - Posts: 7,536	Re: Formatting USB Drives in GNU/Linux try as "sudo" or ask? in terminal: Code: whereis mkfs __________________ left this forum long back.Admin Can Delete this Account and posts Permanantly.Thank You Get GNU/Linux - http://getgnulinux.org

19-06-2007, 09:26 PM	#3 (permalink)
anantkhaitan Burning Bright Join Date: May 2006 Location: NIT, Bhopal Posts: 266	Re: Formatting USB Drives in GNU/Linux ^^ Great man.. It was in /sbin Code: $ sudo /sbin/mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sda1 One more great thing I can specify Volume Label too: Code: sudo /sbin/mkfs.vfat -F32 -n AnantFlash /dev/sda1 __________________ ..::Fedora ::.. Freedom + Infinity + Speech Registered Linux User #447318 GNUger was here.... Grrr.... Maah! Blog http://brightedges.blogspot.com/

19-06-2007, 09:30 PM	#4 (permalink)
praka123 left this forum longback Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: - Posts: 7,536	Re: Formatting USB Drives in GNU/Linux ^tada-U seems to be a g33k in Linux/Unix CLI soon!Best ya Lux __________________ left this forum long back.Admin Can Delete this Account and posts Permanantly.Thank You Get GNU/Linux - http://getgnulinux.org

20-06-2007, 10:17 AM	#5 (permalink)
anantkhaitan Burning Bright Join Date: May 2006 Location: NIT, Bhopal Posts: 266	Re: Formatting USB Drives in GNU/Linux Thanks Prakash.. Now I am feeling weightless __________________ ..::Fedora ::.. Freedom + Infinity + Speech Registered Linux User #447318 GNUger was here.... Grrr.... Maah! Blog http://brightedges.blogspot.com/

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