mkfs.fat
Creates an MS-DOS filesystem inside a partition. More information: https://manned.org/mkfs.fat.
- Create a fat filesystem inside partition 1 on device b (
sdb1
):mkfs.fat {{/dev/sdb1}}
- Create filesystem with a volume-name:
mkfs.fat -n {{volume_name}} {{/dev/sdb1}}
- Create filesystem with a volume-id:
mkfs.fat -i {{volume_id}} {{/dev/sdb1}}
- Use 5 instead of 2 file allocation tables:
mkfs.fat -f 5 {{/dev/sdb1}}
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