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I'm on Debian Bookworm.

I am trying to format my USB drive to FAT32 filesystem.

~$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sdb                                                                         
└─sdb1
     ntfs         SONY  2DE23E532C9D2CAC

When I tried mkfs I get the following error:

sudo mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1
[sudo] password for vrgovinda: 
mkfs: failed to execute mkfs.vfat: No such file or directory

I have the following installed:

exfatprogs
udisks2

Is there anything I am doing wrong? Please help. Thanks in advance.

vrgovinda
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    `mkfs.vfat` is in [`dosfstools`](https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=mkfs.vfat&mode=path&suite=stable&arch=any) – muru Aug 21 '23 at 02:23
  • I upvoted your comment since it was right. But in the link that you have provided, `apt-file search `, I get an error that `apt-file: command not found` – vrgovinda Aug 21 '23 at 09:42
  • That answer clearly states "it is not installed by default but in the repositories", the package index I used is mentioned in [another answer](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/13744/70524) – muru Aug 21 '23 at 09:45
  • Thank you. How can I get `apt-file`; There's nothing like that in my repositories. I use Debian Bookworm – vrgovinda Aug 21 '23 at 09:49
  • It definitely is packaged for Bookworm: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/apt-file – muru Aug 21 '23 at 10:24
  • oh yes! I'm really sorry. `apt-file search mkfs.vfat dosfstools: /sbin/mkfs.vfat dosfstools: /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.vfat.8.gz fish-common: /usr/share/fish/completions/mkfs.vfat.fish manpages-de: /usr/share/man/de/man8/mkfs.vfat.8.gz manpages-fr: /usr/share/man/fr/man8/mkfs.vfat.8.gz manpages-pl: /usr/share/man/pl/man8/mkfs.vfat.8.gz` – vrgovinda Aug 21 '23 at 10:51
  • I've installed `dosfstools` and my work is done! Thank you muru! – vrgovinda Aug 21 '23 at 10:52

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