Formatting a USB drive HOWTO


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Formatting a USB drive HOWTO

First partition the usb using the fdisk utility as root:

fdisk /dev/sdb

using fdisk, add a partition of type FAT16. When printing the partitions using the 'p' key, you should see:

Device     Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1        2048 15826943 15824896  7.6G  6 FAT16

Then write the partition table to the disk and exit. Then format the partition to vfat using the command (as root):

mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1

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