[arch-general] Label and Format USB Drive

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Wed Jun 16 14:32:41 EDT 2010


Am 16.06.2010 20:23, schrieb Guilherme M. Nogueira:
> With /dev/sdb as your usb drive, to format:
> 
> fdisk /dev/sdb
> mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1
> 
> and then to name the partition:
> 
> mlabel -i /dev/sdb1 ::ocz_usb

Then (for mlabel) you'll need mtools, too. The label can be passed as an
option to mkdosfs, or you can use dosfslabel to set it.

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