Making a FAT32 filesystem?

Luke Yelavich themuso at themuso.com
Fri Mar 3 19:09:30 EST 2006


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On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 10:21:12AM EST, Marcel Oats wrote:
> Hi, I am using GRML to set up partitions on a system.  After using the "o" 
> command in fdisk to create a new dos label, or making a new partition and 
> changing its type to "c" which is Win95 / Fat32, what is the command to 
> format that partition so as it may be ready for use?

mkdosfs -n "Label" -F 32 /dev/<device>

Where device is the SCSI/IDE hard drive device and partition you want to 
format.

hth
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