Need help creating and mounting FAT32 systems
 

For some reason I have trouble creating and mounting FAT partitions. Whenever I try to create one using mkfs, I'm told that mkfs.vfat doesn't existing (although I can create FAT partitions using fdisk). When I try to mount FAT partitions (whether creating on my machine or not), I've tried using:

and

(with correct permissions, selecting the correct drive, etc.), and it tells me that I've chosen an incorrect file system.

Any suggestions?

You need dosfstools to for FAT drives. fdisk only creates the partition. The disk is still not usable until it is formatted.

after you created your fat partition you need
to format it with
you should replace '/dev/sdz1' by the actual
name of your fat partition (e.g., /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb3, ...)

I usually run it with '-F 32' option (for vfat 32):

Thanks for the reply, that worked perfectly!