to format USB stick with FAT32

to format USB stick with FAT32:

1) check first, what device is your USB stick:

fdisk -l

suppose, it's /dev/sdd

2) with fdisk or cfdisk make partition on it (if you don't have any yet)

then, you've got /dev/sdd1 partition

3) now, create new file system on the USB stick:

mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdd1

doing this, you can get message: "no such file or directory"
in that case, you need to unplug your USB stick, plug it in again, and to use this command once more

4) just in case, you can check this partition you've made with fdisk or cfdisk

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