{"id":446,"date":"2015-02-08T16:21:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T15:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2015-02-08T16:21:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T15:21:13","slug":"format-an-sd-card-to-fat32-in-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/format-an-sd-card-to-fat32-in-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Format an SD Card to FAT32 in OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"afa2b3b851443650502c43e85c746c1f\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-4223201538046844\";\r\n\/* standaardblok *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"9522527129\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 320;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 50;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you want to format an SD Card to FAT32, and you can only select FAT16 (among other choices) in Disk Utility, issue this command from the command line:<\/p>\n<p>First find the name of your disk with &#8220;df&#8221;. \u00a0The result is something like this:<\/p>\n<pre>iMac-van-Patrick:dev patricksinke$ df\r\nFilesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on\r\n\/dev\/disk1 1951190584 1138759280 811919304 59% 142408908 101489913 58% \/\r\ndevfs 382 382 0 100% 662 0 100% \/dev\r\nmap -hosts 0 0 0 100% 0 0 100% \/net\r\nmap auto_home 0 0 0 100% 0 0 100% \/home\r\n<strong>\/dev\/disk4s1<\/strong> 1983232 3072 1980160 1% 512 0 100% <strong>\/Volumes\/NAAMLOOS 1<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>The disk label is &#8220;NAAMLOOS 1&#8221;, so I know the filesystem name is \/dev\/disk4s1.<\/p>\n<p>Then:<\/p>\n<pre>diskutil eraseVolume \"MS-DOS FAT32\" FAT32disk\u00a0\/dev\/disk4s1<\/pre>\n<p>Where FAT32disk is the new label. You&#8217;re set and done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to format an SD Card to FAT32, and you can only select FAT16 (among other choices) in Disk Utility, issue this command from the command line: First find the name of your disk with &#8220;df&#8221;. \u00a0The result is something like this: iMac-van-Patrick:dev patricksinke$ df Filesystem 512-blocks Used Available Capacity iused ifree %iused&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,121],"tags":[357,354,356,14,13,358,359,355],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-blog","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-fat16","tag-fat32","tag-format","tag-mac","tag-os-x","tag-sd-card","tag-usb","tag-yosemite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psinke.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}