Re: Reformatting a USB drive

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On 5/24/07, Todd Cary <todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a USB drive that has been formatted as NTFS.  Can I reformat it?
I have identified these properties about it

/dev/sda1
/media/Extrnl_Bkup

Not sure what to do next since the GUI will not mount a NTFS disk
(expected).

There are kernel ntfs modules, but really, the most universally
supported option is to format with vfat. This way it will work on
windows, mac and linux systems, fully supported all the way around.
There are some limitations to fat32, 4G file sizes and the like.

The quick and easy way is mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1....tap fingers for a
minute... then unplug/reinsert.


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