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mkdosfs for arm debian?

Posted by frozenrhino 
mkdosfs for arm debian?
December 27, 2010 07:38PM
Hi,

Have any of you run across mkdosfs? I can't find it in apt-get and it's neither in the debian install nor in the rescue system.

I ask because I have a 1TB drive partitioned half ext2 and half vfat. I want to use the vfat side to share out via Samba over openVPN.

Thanks,

FZR
Re: mkdosfs for arm debian?
December 27, 2010 07:51PM
Its in dosfstools package...
root@dockstar1:~# apt-cache search mkdosfs
dosfstools-dbg - utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems (debug)
dosfstools - utilities for making and checking MS-DOS FAT filesystems
Run the following commands as root to install...
apt-get install dosfstools
-PG
Re: mkdosfs for arm debian?
December 27, 2010 08:09PM
You, sir, rock.

Thank you!

FZR
Raspberry Pi dude
Re: mkdosfs for arm debian?
December 16, 2012 10:28AM
Oh brilliant, this is just what i was after. I have a Raspberry Pi and wanted to format my external drive as fat32 so i could share the videos i plan to place on it with my playstation 3, which only accepts fat32 currently. I have been looking all over the net for a debian related solution as i already knew i needed the mkdosfs command, i just did not know the package. Cheers to both of you.
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