Hi,

I want to create a VFAT partition but I can not find mkfs.vfat. It's
mentioned in 'man mkfs' but that's about it. Googleing reveals very
little about this - apart from installing dosfstools, which I can't find
either.

NB - I've done a full install.

Has anyone any ideas?

Thanks,
David

David wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to create a VFAT partition but I can not find mkfs.vfat. It's
> mentioned in 'man mkfs' but that's about it. Googleing reveals very
> little about this - apart from installing dosfstools, which I can't find
> either.
>
> NB - I've done a full install.
>
> Has anyone any ideas?

Have you tried just doing a mkfs -t vfat ? It should work afaik

the only mention in the package browser was in the kernel modules
package
(http://www.slackware.org/pb/searchfi...ring=vfat&w=on)
and I'm doing the wild guess that you have that one installed

Stefan

David wrote:
[mkfs.vfat]
> mentioned in 'man mkfs' but that's about it.

mkdosfs is what i used.

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David wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to create a VFAT partition but I can not find mkfs.vfat. It's
> mentioned in 'man mkfs' but that's about it. Googleing reveals very
> little about this - apart from installing dosfstools, which I can't find
> either.
>
> NB - I've done a full install.
>
> Has anyone any ideas?

Example for a ZIP disk:

mkdosfs /dev/hdd4

Cheers,

Niki Kovacs
--
I'm not as think as you stoned I am.

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:27:31 +0000, Joost Kremers wrote:

> David wrote:
> [mkfs.vfat]
>> mentioned in 'man mkfs' but that's about it.
>
> mkdosfs is what i used.

Thanks for the replies all.

I really should have give more information. Sorry.

Slackware 10.1
17 GB partition

# mkfs -t vfat /dev/hdb4
mkfs.vfat: No such file or directory

I've managed to format it (had to use FAT 32 because of the partition size.)
# mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hdb4

Works a treat.

Thanks,
David

David wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:27:31 +0000, Joost Kremers wrote:
>
>
>>David wrote:
>>[mkfs.vfat]
>>
>>>mentioned in 'man mkfs' but that's about it.
>>
>>mkdosfs is what i used.
>
>
> Thanks for the replies all.
>
> I really should have give more information. Sorry.
>
> Slackware 10.1
> 17 GB partition
>
> # mkfs -t vfat /dev/hdb4
> mkfs.vfat: No such file or directory
>
> I've managed to format it (had to use FAT 32 because of the partition size.)
> # mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hdb4
>
> Works a treat.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
>

Heh, I had to format a hard drive off my laptop because our windows
office couldn't format it as fat32 and we didn't want ntfs. As usual, a
linux machine gets to save the day.

(It couldn't format it because the drive was too big, in case people try
to say to use "format c: /q /u" or whatever.)