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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 OSX

ntfs.util

NTFS.UTIL(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      NTFS.UTIL(8)

NAME

     ntfs.util -- NTFS file system utility

SYNOPSIS

     ntfs.util -k device

     ntfs.util -m device mountpoint mountflag1 mountflag2 mountflag3 mountflag4

     ntfs.util -p device mountflag1 mountflag2

     ntfs.util -u device mountpoint

DESCRIPTION

     The ntfs.util command supports the mounting, probing, and unmounting of NTFS file systems.

     Options:
	   -k	       Get the UUID key for the NTFS file system at device.
	   -m	       Mount the NTFS file system located on device onto mountpoint with the flags mountflag1 mountflag2 mountflag3 mountflag4.
	   -p	       Probe the device for an NTFS file system using the flags mountflag1 mountflag2.	If the probe is successful, i.e. the
		       device contains a valid NTFS file system, its label is printed to the standard output stream.
	   -u	       Unmount the NTFS file system located at device and mounted on mountpoint.

     The mountflags referenced above are:
	   o   mountflag1: removable or fixed
	   o   mountflag2: readonly or writeable
	   o   mountflag3: suid or nosuid
	   o   mountflag4: dev or nodev

SEE ALSO

     diskarbitrationd(8) mount_ntfs(8)

HISTORY

     This NTFS implementation first appeared in Mac OS X 10.5.

AUTHORS

     This NTFS implementation was written by Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>.

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