[plug] Formatting a USB Flash Disk in Linux

[Adrian Blockley]

For what its worth my understanding is that 

vfat != fat32

vfat is an extension to fat16 that allows long file names whereas fat32 is the 32 bit implementation of fat16, or am I missing something here???



On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:47:52 +0800
Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:

>  Steve Grasso wrote:
>  > Hi Margo,
>  > 
>  > In this case, I suspect that XP has kindly formatted the device as
>  > FAT32, not FAT, hence it is not a vfat (ie. FAT16) device.
>  
>  vfat == fat32.
>  msdos == fat12/fat16
>  
>  > mkfs -t vfat -v /dev/sda1
>  
>  mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sda1
>  

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