Label a Drive During the Format Command

carlosinfl · 12-18-2009, 02:32 PM

I use to know this command but lost it and did not note the entire command on my Linux cheat sheet. Someone once showed me a simple very easy command I could use to simple format a USB flash drive as FAT32 and in the same command also name the label of the drive.

I have the device /dev/sdc1 and I am formatting this as FAT32 so it's compatible across multiple systems but also want the drive to have the name 'my_usb'. Anyone know how this is possible?

raju.mopidevi · 12-18-2009, 02:48 PM

Code:

#mkfs.fat32 -v -L usbdisk /dev/sdb1

carlosinfl · 12-18-2009, 03:08 PM

I have msdos and vfat. Is there a difference?

raju.mopidevi · 12-18-2009, 03:17 PM

if it is DOS fs then use

Code:

/sbin/mkdosfs -v -F 32 -n USBDISKNAME /dev/sdb4