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Posted: Feb. 16 2008,17:24 QUOTE
cfdisk does not do any formatting, it only partitions your disk.

You can use the mk* set of tools for formatting.  See http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....h_Drive for example.
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Posted: Feb. 16 2008,17:25 QUOTE
DSL doesn't include dosfstools, only ext2 & 3. So if you want to format into ext2, you would use
mkfs.ext2 -m 0 /dev/sda1

The binary dosfstools release works fine on DSL though, so if you want fat16/32, it's at: ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub.....tar.gz

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Posted: Feb. 16 2008,17:33 QUOTE
Many thanks all.

Did mke2fs and then cfdisk and the stick is now clean.
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Posted: Feb. 16 2008,22:23 QUOTE
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Did mke2fs and then cfdisk and the stick is now clean.

Why on earth would you partition after formatting?

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Posted: Feb. 17 2008,00:14 QUOTE
Then mke2fs -m 0 /dev/sda1 would be sufficient to "format".
Still learning Linux.
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