[CentOS] How to format a USB drive?

Fri Jun 3 00:20:31 UTC 2011
Harry Sukumar <harry.sukumar at qut.edu.au>

Why not just use fdisk or gparted?


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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?
> 
> Many thanks...
> 
> Todd
>