formatting with win32 in slack

newio · 06-10-2006, 12:13 AM

Is there anyway to format a win32 partition in slackware?

I've already fdisk'ed the drive and created a new win32 primary partition, but dont know what the format command is.

jong357 · 06-10-2006, 01:32 AM

Code:

man mkfs

Not trying to be prickish but I don't exactaly know myself.

Looks like it would be:

Code:

mkfs -V -t vfat /dev/hda5

asuming /dev/hda5 is the partition in question. Play around with it. You'll find out quick enough. The man page hints, to the best of my imediate understanding, that you could:

Code:

ln -sf /sbin/mkfs /sbin/mkfs.vfat
mkfs.vfat /dev/hda5

But I could be wrong there....

Bruce Hill · 06-10-2006, 02:10 AM

To format a FAT32 filesystem under Linux:
"/sbin/mkdosfs -F32 -v /dev/hda2"

I know this works from experience.

newio · 06-10-2006, 05:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chinaman

To format a FAT32 filesystem under Linux:
"/sbin/mkdosfs -F32 -v /dev/hda2"

I know this works from experience.

cheers, that one worked a treat.

the /sbin/mffs.vfat didn't exist on my system, and creating the link or calling mkfs -V -t vfat caused it to use the fault fs type (ext2), so no luck with that method

zytsef · 06-26-2006, 04:08 PM

Sorry to resurect an old thread, but as far as I can tell there are no Slackware packages with mkfs.vfat. Is this so, or did I just miss a package? mkdosfs seems to work well enough, I'm just curious.

Alien Bob · 06-26-2006, 05:07 PM

There is no mkfs.vfat on Slackware. Use mkdosfs.

Eric

*edit* I checked on a Redhat box - mkfs.msdos and mkfs.vfat are the same binary there, they are hardlinks even.