mkfs.vfat and mkfs.ntfs Arch Linux

This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements.

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