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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Can I format a partition in Linux with FAT32 or NTFS? Post 302808137 by ravisingh on Thursday 16th of May 2013 02:33:57 AM
Old 05-16-2013
Can I format a partition in Linux with FAT32 or NTFS?
I tried in fedora 9 to format a partition with FAT32 or NTFS but failed
Code:
mkfs -t NTFS /dev/sdb3
mkfs -t FAT32 /dev/sdb3

In both the output says the the device isn't present.
the output is something like this:
mkfs.FAT32: no device present
mkfs.NTFS: no device present

I am able to format in Linux with ext3/4 and so I expected the format type to be visible in the below command output but isn't present in the output
Code:
fdisk /dev/sdb
command (m for help): l

I pressed l so as to list the diff. format types
I don't find ext3 or ext4 present. There is a type named 'Extended' but when I run the mkfs command with this type the same error I get. Why so?
 

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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT

mkfs.jfs

mkfs.jfs(8)						     JFS file system creation						       mkfs.jfs(8)

NAME

       mkfs.jfs - create a JFS formatted partition

SYNOPSIS

       mkfs.jfs [options] device

DESCRIPTION

       mkfs.jfs is used to create (format) a JFS partition.  mkfs.jfs must be run as root.

       device is the special file name corresponding to the actual device (e.g. /dev/hdb1) on which a JFS file system will be created.

       The default block size is 4096.

WARNING

       mkfs.jfs will destroy all data on the specified device!

OPTIONS

       -c     Check the device for bad blocks before building the file system.

       -L volume_label
	      Set the volume label for the file system.

       -O     Provide case-insensitive support for compatibility with OS/2.

       -q     Quiet execution - do not ask for confirmation before creating the file system.

       -s log_size
	      Set the log size (in megabytes).	If the -s option is not used, the default log size is 0.4% of the aggregate size.

       -V     Print version information and exit (regardless of any other chosen options).

EXAMPLES

       Format 3rd partition on 2nd hard disk with the volume label "JFS_hdb3":

	      mkfs.jfs -L JFS_hdb3 /dev/hdb3

       Format 5th partition on 1st hard disk, verifying each block created:

	      mkfs.jfs -c /dev/hda5

REPORTING BUGS

       If you find a bug in JFS or mkfs.jfs, please report it via the bug tracking system ("Report Bugs" section) of the JFS project web site:
       http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs

       Please  send as much pertinent information as possible including any error messages resulting from running mkfs.jfs and the complete output
       of running fsck.jfs with the -v option.

SEE ALSO

       mkfs(8), fsck.jfs(8), extendfs(8), logdump(8), logredo(8), xchkdmp(8), xpeek(8)

AUTHORS

       Barry Arndt  (barndt@us.ibm.com)
       William Braswell, Jr.

       mkfs.jfs is maintained by IBM.
       See the JFS project web site for more details:
       http://oss.software.ibm.com/jfs/

								 November 9, 2001						       mkfs.jfs(8)
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