Fromat USB drive on RH 8

[Tammy Liang]

How can I format USB drive on redhat 8?

Thanks for any help.

[Jeroen Peereboom · Accepted solution]

My USB pen drive is formatted as FAT32, and I mount it with mount -t vfat or something like vfat).

If you (really) want to format your USB drive for Linux, you have to use fdisk to partition it, and next create a filesystem on the partition (newfs, mkfs).

But I would just use Windows to format it....

JP

[Stuart Browne]

you could also use the appropraite 'mkfs -t ' command (vfat in this case).

But it'd be safer to use a Windows box if you have one available.

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

Thue USB drive has to be unmounted before the format.
mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
if you wish to format the USB that's on /dev/sda1 with fat

[Steven E. Protter]

i would use newfs or mkfs command.

SEP

[Thomas Bianco]

i would recomend no messing with it. most of these devices are not "true" disk but only emulate the filesystem.

my Lexar specifically states that you cannot format it with OS level tools, but requires it's own windows program that directly writes to HW.