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#1 2010-08-23 20:25:05
- mike54
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[SOLVED] Cannot format flashdisk to FAT/NTFS
Hello,
I wanted to format my flashdisk, so I run the gnome partition editor, but when I tried to format a partition to FAT or NTFS (other filesystems worked well), I got an error message: "Error creating filesystem, filesystem tools not installed" (or something like that) and "Error creating file system: Cannot run mkfs: cannot spawn 'mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdc': Failed to execute child process "mkfs.vfat" (No such file or directory)
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I have installed ntfs-3g some time ago, could this be causing the error? How to fix this?
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#2 2010-08-23 20:33:28
- karol
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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot format flashdisk to FAT/NTFS
You need dosfstools from [extra].
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#3 2010-08-23 20:33:50
- lucak3
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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot format flashdisk to FAT/NTFS
pacman -S dosfstools
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#4 2010-08-23 20:35:55
- cesura
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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot format flashdisk to FAT/NTFS
Please use Google like the rest of us.
http://www.debianhelp.org/node/7759
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#5 2010-08-23 20:38:08
- karol
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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot format flashdisk to FAT/NTFS
Please use Google like the rest of us.
http://www.debianhelp.org/node/7759
Or pkgtools
[karol@black ~]$ pkgfile mkfs.vfat
extra/dosfstoolspkgfile will tell you what package has the file you need.
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#6 2010-08-23 20:46:48
- mike54
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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot format flashdisk to FAT/NTFS
Great! Thank you, didn't know about pkgtools.
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#7 2010-08-23 22:04:17
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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot format flashdisk to FAT/NTFS
I wouldn't recommend formatting NTFS partitions with Linux tools. It's still a closed format, and the only ones that have access to its innards are Microsoft itself and the companies who pay for it.
I have encountered readability problems with Linux-formatted VFAT portable drives on Windows as well. Same advice here: use Microsoft's tools if you can. It's their 'standard'.
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