Hi,
I'm having problems formatting one of my partitions on an external HD with the FAT32 format.
I have partitioned my external USB HD using fdisk:
bubba:/# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 700 5622718+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 701 60801 482761282+ 83 Linux
Formatting 2nd partition with ext2 seemed to work just fine, but trying to format the 1st partition using the following command does not work:
mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1
I get the error:
mkfs.vfat: No such file or directory
There seems to be lacking/missing some vital files in /sbin/.
Is there a workaround for this problem, or do I have to install some additional packages in order to be able to do the formatting from bubba?
Sincerely
dengamle.
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