[SOLVED] Cannot format flashdisk to FAT/NTFS

Hello,
I wanted to format my flashdisk, so I run the gnome partition editor, but when I tried to format a partition to FAT or NTFS (other filesystems worked well), I got an error message: "Error creating filesystem, filesystem tools not installed" (or something like that) and "Error creating file system: Cannot run mkfs: cannot spawn 'mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdc': Failed to execute child process "mkfs.vfat" (No such file or directory)
I have installed ntfs-3g some time ago, could this be causing the error? How to fix this?
Last edited by mike54 (2012-02-21 22:11:02)

itsbrad212 wrote:Please use Google like the rest of us.
http://www.debianhelp.org/node/7759
Or pkgtools
[karol@black ~]$ pkgfile mkfs.vfat
extra/dosfstools
pkgfile will tell you what package has the file you need.

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