[plug] formatting utilities?

[Brad Campbell]

John Knight wrote:
> G'day all!
> 
> What's the best formatting utility that I'm likely to have under most 
> distros that I can use to format a usb flashdrive into either FAT32 or 
> ext2? Currently it's using FAT16 and the bleeding filenames are 
> 8.3!!!!!!!!! Any help would be greatly appreciated before my hair 
> prematurely falls out at 19. ;)

mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sda1

apt-get install dosfstools

Brad