Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 9:36 PM |  
The basic command actually is mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1
vfat is a filesystem for pendrive and is mostly used because it is the filesystem through which u can access the pendrive in linux as well as in windows

The /dev/sdb1 is the address of my pendrive which i have seen after sing the more command.So see accordingly and change the address in the command respectively in your computer.

The Problem i faced while doing this was that mkfs.vfat command was not found.
So when i did some googling i found out that all this things are actually in a package called dostools .

So while in su(super user mode or root) i installed the package dostools by

urpmi dostools

and this installed the dostools package and i found the missing package installed.

So Finally learnt to format a pendrive.
Posted by Anvesh

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