[SOLVED] Where is mkfs.vfat ?

kozaki · 2006-04-24 14:37:11

Today I'm building a system on a oooold Celeron for coming from windows friend of mine.
Following his instructions, I need to make a "Data" partition that can be rw from both his old win98 and his new Arch Linux OSes

I want to launch mkfs.vfat as I did before but there's no mkfs.vfat available in every repos (same with qpkg and in AUR). This is annoying as one may need such a tool for his USB storage devices.
So the point is : howto make a fat32 partition from Arch ?

tomk · 2006-04-24 14:57:10

It's provided by dosfstools.

kozaki · 2006-04-24 15:09:07

Thank you very much for your quick reply tomk

Is that me that used pacman / AUR / qpkg wrong, or is mkfs.vfat not repertoried on those 3 tools ?

tomk · 2006-04-24 15:29:45

Couldn't tell you. I just did

pacman -Qo /sbin/mkfs.vfat

FUBAR · 2006-04-24 15:36:14

It's in the official Arch repo, you probably made a typo somehow somewhere.

kozaki · 2006-04-24 16:36:19

Well, when one knows the name of the package that'll give him the tool he wants, that's much easier for sure...

I didn't think about dosfstools, instead i used pacman, AUR (with the "/" tweak) & qpkg -f about (v)fat and mkfs(.vfat)

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[SOLVED] Where is mkfs.vfat ?

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