how to format a pendrive in fat32,ntfs format?

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   Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejer on Sep 28, 2012

   gParted makes that fairly easy.
   As for the command line, I would open cfdisk to create the partition; change the type to 0B (zero b) for FAT32 – and write the changes.
   Then take it out, reinsert it – it will probably complain, because the partition table thinks it should expect a FAT32 file system, but there is not one yet – then you kan run mkfs.vfat on the stick – for instance “mkfs,vfat /dev/sdc1″ – if the stick is /dev/sdc and we are talking about the first partition on it.
   Then you should be good to go.

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   Connie New on Mar 04, 2012

   Use gparted for a GUI option and you can format into NTFS and FAT32 formats. This is by far the easiest

   For formatting from the command line you need to use parted
   or
   1st make a partition using fdisk e.g.
   fdisk
   then format the drive to the format you want using mkfs.. e.g.
   mkfs.fat32

   Doing this potentially loses data..so always back up first, and typos can lead you to wiping a wrong partition irrecoverably

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   Connie New on Mar 04, 2012

   use gparted for a GUI option and you can format into NTFS and FAT32 formats
   For formatting from the command line you need to use parted
   or
   1st make a partition using fdisk
   then format the drive to the format you want using mkfs.. e.g.
   mkfs.fat32

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   Emil Ojackov on Dec 25, 2011

   FAT32 is different file format from NTFS.
   So you can format only FAT32 or only NTFS.
   Using both of them on one Pendisk is impossible.
   Have a nice day!
   Emil.

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