:::: formatting usb pen drive fat32 :::::

hi-

can anybody provide instruction on how to format usb drive

thx !!!!

 

under what OS?

 

it's running out of the box linpuslinux--

it would be nice to transfer files from XP-- but i'm not sure if the linpuslinux can handle fat32 or ntfs

thanks for any input

 

To simply format it so that you have a plain fat32 system, after making sure that it's not mounted (and that it's seen as /dev/sdb

sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb -I
(that's a capital letter i at the end.)

I haven't tried that in Linpus, it's what I use prior to using unetbootin to write an ISO to a USB drive.

To format fat16 with one partition, so that you have /dev/sdb1, you can follow this guide.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLi ... lash_drive

Linpus should be able to read fat and fat32 partitions. Most Linux distributions can now mount such partitions without special effort. For example, after plugging in the drive, which (again, in most modern distributions but I'm not sure about Linpus) should be automatically recognized, you might find, if you then type

mount

that /dev/sdb or /dev/sdb1 is already mounted. For example, you might see something like

/dev/sdb /media/disk

in Ubuntu.

Otherwise, you might have to manually mount it.
sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt

If you get an error that you must specify the file system type use
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt
(or sdb1, depending upon how you formatted it.)