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Formate USB flash drive to Ext4 with Mac
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Formate disk (USB flash drive) to Ext4 with Mac

  • List disks and determine the disk

    $ diskutil list

  • Unmount the disk

    $ diskutil unmountDisk disk4

  • Install e2fsprogs

    brew install e2fsprogs

  • Formate disk

    $ sudo $(brew --prefix e2fsprogs)/sbin/mkfs.ext4 /dev/disk4

  • Set label of disk

    $ sudo $(brew --prefix e2fsprogs)/sbin/e2label /dev/disk4 <name>
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