Re: 16GB USB Drive Not Accessible

[Robert Nichols]

Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 00:23 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> > Christopher A. Williams wrote:
>
> Now, one last question: what's the flag to format a FAT32 partition with
> mkfs? I saw options for pretty much everything but that. I'm probably
> just suffering from not having had my first cup of coffee... :)

The manpage for mkfs has some suggestions in the "SEE ALSO" section.
You have your choice of:

mkfs -t vfat
      mkfs.vfat
      mkdosfs
      mkfs.msdos

The last 3 are all hard links to the same program.  The first is just a
wrapper that invokes the mkfs.xxxx appropriate to the requested type.