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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Can I format a partition in Linux with FAT32 or NTFS? Post 302808259 by Scott on Thursday 16th of May 2013 09:24:03 AM
Old 05-16-2013
ext3 and ext4 are filesystem types, not partition types as shown by fdisk. FAT partition types shown by fdisk exist for mostly historical reasons and have nothing to do with Linux. You likely want to create a Linux of Linux LVM type of partition, and then format it using ext3 or ext4.

Code:
# ls /sbin/mkfs.*
/sbin/mkfs.cramfs  /sbin/mkfs.ext2  /sbin/mkfs.ext3  /sbin/mkfs.ext4  /sbin/mkfs.ext4dev  /sbin/mkfs.xfs

# mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
393216 inodes, 1572864 blocks
78643 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=1610612736
48 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736

While I've never had cause (or wanted to) create an MSDOS filesystem, there is a package you can install to do so:
Code:
# yum install dosfstools
...
# ls /sbin/mkfs
[root@test1 ~]# ls /sbin/mkfs.*
/sbin/mkfs.cramfs  /sbin/mkfs.ext3  /sbin/mkfs.ext4dev  /sbin/mkfs.vfat
/sbin/mkfs.ext2    /sbin/mkfs.ext4  /sbin/mkfs.msdos    /sbin/mkfs.xfs

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

mkfs.bfs

MKFS.BFS(8)						Linux System Administrator's Manual					       MKFS.BFS(8)

NAME

       mkfs.bfs - make an SCO bfs filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       mkfs.bfs [-N nr-of-inodes] [-V volume-name] [-F fsname] device [size-in-blocks]

DESCRIPTION

       mkfs.bfs creates an SCO bfs file-system on a block device (usually a disk partition or a file accessed via the loop device).

       The  size-in-blocks  parameter  is  the	desired size of the file system, in blocks.  If nothing is specified, the entire partition will be
       used.

OPTIONS

       -N     Specify the desired number of inodes (at most 512).  If nothing is specified some default number	in  the  range	48-512	is  picked
	      depending on the size of the partition.

       -V volume-label
	      Specify the volume label. I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -F fsname
	      Specify the fsname. I have no idea if/where this is used.

       -v     Be verbose.

EXIT CODES

       The exit code returned by mkfs.bfs is 0 when all went well, and 1 when something went wrong.

SEE ALSO

       mkfs(8).

AVAILABILITY

       The mkfs.bfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

Util-linux 2.9x 						   12 Sept 1999 						       MKFS.BFS(8)
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