Unable To Format in Vfat?

carlosinfl · 06-24-2007, 07:41 PM

I have a removable USB drive that I was attempting to format with fdisk and that all went fine however now I am trying to format the newly created partition on /dev/sdc1 I created.

I did a Google search and some how in Debian (Lenny) I seem to be missing the option to mkfs.vfat or mkfs -t vfat on my system.

The partition is done and labeled via fdisk but how do I format it in Lenny? Am I missing something? I have no GUI so I am looking for CLI only tools.

Thanks!

Code:

tunafish:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 79.9 GB, 79999994368 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1               1        9726    78124063+   b  W95 FAT32

And these are my only options for mkfs in CLI:

Code:

tunafish:~# mkfs
mkfs         mkfs.cramfs  mkfs.ext2    mkfs.ext3    mkfs.minix

Please help!

namit · 06-24-2007, 08:03 PM

just use parted.

syg00 · 06-24-2007, 09:13 PM

You'll probably need to install dosfstools - I don't use debian, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't have a deb for it.

Hungry ghost · 06-24-2007, 11:04 PM

Hi, have you tried with mkdosfs?? (something like mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sdc1 ??). This program is indeed provided by the dosfstools package, as syg00 says; should be on Lenny's repositories, I guess (I'm on Ubuntu now, so I'm not sure at all).

Greetings.

carlosinfl · 06-25-2007, 07:40 AM

I will try and search Lenny repo's for it as these are my only options:

Code:

tunafish:~# mk
mkbimage          mkfifo            mkfs.ext2         mkinitramfs-kpkg  mkpasswd
mkboot            mkfontdir         mkfs.ext3         mklost+found      mkswap
mkdir             mkfontscale       mkfs.minix        mkmanifest        mktemp
mkdirhier         mkfs              mkhtmlindex       mk_modmap         mkzftree
mke2fs            mkfs.cramfs       mkinitramfs       mknod

makuyl · 06-25-2007, 10:51 AM

Like Syg00 said: apt-get install dosfstools

carlosinfl · 06-25-2007, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by makuyl

Like Syg00 said: apt-get install dosfstools

Yes - got it in .deb format.