Formatting flash disk

From: Margo (margo_at_ozjokes.no.spam.com)
Date: 01/01/04 

Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 21:12:27 +0800

Hi All

I had some problems with usb ports and at one stage reformatted my flash
disk under WinXP thinking that would help. Silly me it turned out to be
a hardware problem (now fixed)

However, when I plug in the flash disk to Fedora, the correct line is
inserted to /etc/fstab.. so far so good. But when I try to mount the
disk, I get error - unknown file system. I reformatted as FAT & FAT32 in
WinXP but same thing.

I'm only just learning linux so I'm not familiar with the commands yet
so this is probably a very basic question but how would I format the
flash disk under linux as vFAT ?

Margo

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