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Pendrive/USB-Stick formatting in CLI

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Pendrive/USB-Stick formatting in CLI

detecting the pendrive:
```
sudo fdisk -l
```
unmounting pendrive
```
sudo umount /dev/sdf1
```
formatting the pendrive
```
sudo mkfs.vfat -n ‘Nome Pendrive’ -I /dev/sdf1
```
where:
- '-n' = Volume Name
- 'mkfs' = command responsible for format the file system
- 'vfat' = formats in the file system FAT. Others avaible: mkfs.bfs, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext3, mkfs.ext4, mkfs.minix, mkfs.msdos, mkfs.vfat, mkfs.xfs, mkfs.xiafs.
- '-I' = pen drive's partition

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