[arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

[Aljosha Papsch]

16.06.2010 20:11, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> I have a USB thrumb drive when I mount it, it mounts fine and shows up
> as "USBDRIVE" on my system.
>
> I would like to know how I can reformat the drive as fat32 using the
> 'mkfs' command and also setting a new system label on the drive as
> "ocz_usb"?
> I do not appear to have the tools installed on my Arch system that
> allow me to format as fat32 and can't find the command to format and
> set the label? Can this be done in one command step?
>
>    
You need to install the package dosfstools from [extra]. Then you can 
format your drive with mkfs.