Thursday, August 29, 2013

Format USB pen drive using command line on Linux


Format USB pen drive on Linux

First find the device path of the USB device using following command
fdisk -l
Output looks like this.

Now you can find the device path of the USB drive.
Suppose it is /dev/sdb1

Format pen drive in fat32 filesystem, Run following command
mkdosfs -F32 -v -n "" /dev/sdb1

Format pen drive in NTFS filesystem, Run following command
mkntfs -Q -v -L "" /dev/sdb1

Format pen drive in ext4 filesystem, Run following command
mkfs.ext4 -j -O extent -L "" /dev/sdb1

Format pen drive in ext3 filesystem, Run following command
mkfs.ext3 -L "" /dev/sdb1

Format pen drive in ext2 filesystem, Run following command
mkfs.ext2 -L "" /dev/sdb1

Format pen drive in fat16 filesystem, Run following command
mkdosfs -F16 -v -n "" /dev/sdb1

Note :
Change /dev/sdb1 with your device path.

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