[plug] formatting utilities?

[Chris Caston]

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 21:08, Brad Campbell wrote:
> 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

I've never tried formating a usb flashdrive with ext3 before but for
hardrives I would try:

mkfs.ext3 -b blocksize /dev/yourstoragedevice

It's a good idea to get out of the habit of using vfat because of it's
2gb file size limit.
> 
> Brad
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