Format a USB flash drive using gpart

[Bruce Cran]

On 08/07/2012 13:30, Polytropon wrote:
> With few routine, tasks are performed more natural using
> the desired CLI tools. You don't go "Now I have to remember
> which command to format the disk", you just format the disk,
> which means "spaking to" newfs. The more often you do it,
> the more obvious the tools are, and they won't change in
> look and feel (or options). That makes them superior.

How do you format a FAT32 partition? newfs won't work. Is it newfs_vfat, 
newfs_fat32, newfs_msdos etc.? And how do you specify you want FAT32 
instead of FAT12 or FAT16? With a good GUI tool like diskmgmt.msc in 
Windows 2008 you simply right-click the partition and click "New Volume" 
to create a new partition, or "Format" to format it - and then follow 
the prompts.  Of course using diskpart is faster if you know the 
commands and parameters, but for an ordinary user adding a new disk 
maybe once a year it's most likely more efficient to just use the GUI.

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Bruce Cran