[CentOS] How to format a USB drive?
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m.roth at 5-cent.usThu Jun 2 15:35:56 UTC 2011
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Todd, Todd Cary wrote: > I have a usb drive, /media/disk and I want to reformat it. There > are several questions that come up: > > How can I determine the current format? > > Do I use the mkfs command? > You can pretty much format it any way you want. fdisk /media/disk, then p, will tell you what it thinks it is; change the type with a t if you want something different. Partition it as you like - it's just a storage medium. My USB key that I have set up to install CentOS from has a 10M DOS partition, and the rest of the 8G is ext3 (or did I make it ext2 - I forget). mark
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