[plug] formatting utilities?

[John Knight]

thankyou muchly. :)

"...it was brilliant, there was three up against a thousand, and boy, did we 
give those three heaps!"

>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
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