![]() If you come from Windows then its partition tools do that automatically. Linux GUI applications like GParted or KDE Partition Manager will set the correct partition type automatically when you create a new partition in the free space of your disk. To change the partition type in the partition table you need to use any of these tools: fdisk, parted, sfdisk, gdisk, etc. Mkfs.* utilities simply format the storage, they never touch the partition table. You can perfectly have partitions type Linux filesystem (MBR notation Linux) formatted as NTFS and partitions type Microsoft basic data (MBR notation HPFS/NTFS/exFAT) formatted as e.g. There's a partition table and there are file systems - they are related but different. How is it possible? What am I doing wrong? ![]() Initializing device with zeroes: 100% - Done. dev/sdc1 2048 15359966 15357919 7.3G Linux filesystemĭuring the attempt: $ sudo mkfs.ntfs -I /dev/sdc1Ĭluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes. ![]() Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Before the attempt to format a flash drive: $ sudo fdisk -lĭisk /dev/sdc: 7.32 GiB, 7864320000 bytes, 15360000 sectors
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