At the command line, type "man mkfs".Hi
Background:
When I first installed Fedora I plugged in my flash disk and nothing happened. I worked on this for 3 days and then finally realised that the usb ports weren't working at all. I have since changed the MB and they work.
So. Flash disk no 1 now works.
Unfortunately Flash disk No 2 got formatted as fat32 to see if that would make it work before I found out the usb ports weren't working.
When I plug it in n ow, it's picked up as a flash disk (good) however the filesystem comes up as unknown or not recognised.
I have searched everywhere to find out the command to reformat the disk as vfat in linux... perhaps its too basic a command to be in any faq. Can anyone help.
You probably want to issue: "mkfs -t msdos /dev/whatever
I'm not sure, but I think FAT32 (-t vfat) isn't supported for flash drives....How did you manage to get it formatted that way in the first place?
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