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Date: 2010-10-23 00:00:00 -0400

mkfs.vfat is used to format a file system using the FAT32 file system.

Usually needed to format thumb usb disks.

In Arch Linux you need to install:

dosfstools

sudo pacman -S dosfstools

This will get you mkfs.vfat and mkfs.msdos

If you need to format using ntfs install

sudo pacman -S ntfsprogs

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