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mkfs.vfat

Creates an MS-DOS filesystem inside a partition. More information: https://manned.org/mkfs.vfat.

• Create a vfat filesystem inside partition 1 on device b (sdb1):
   
  mkfs.vfat {{/dev/sdb1}}
   
• Create filesystem with a volume-name:
   
  mkfs.vfat -n {{volume_name}} {{/dev/sdb1}}
   
• Create filesystem with a volume-id:
   
  mkfs.vfat -i {{volume_id}} {{/dev/sdb1}}
   
• Use 5 instead of 2 file allocation tables:
   
  mkfs.vfat -f 5 {{/dev/sdb1}}