Format file in FAT32 on a Mac
December 15th, 2011 | by RoarinPenguin |Had a need, found a solution, reporting the procedure here.
First, you need to understand what is the disk name of the device you want to format.
For example, if you have a MacBook Pro and a SD card, this is done using disk utility, selecting the card reader where you inserted the SD card and clicking on Info button to get information about the storage.
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Even with an italian screenshot, you can grab that in my example the device name is disk4.
Open Terminal and type the command reported below to proceed with the format:
diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk4 MBRFormat “MS-DOS FAT32” “2G” 2Gb
This will create on /dev/disk4 a FAT 32 (MS-DOS FAT16 will do a 16bit one) partition labeled 2G of 2 Gb in size.
Enjoy.
