First know some baics, have you thought about the partitions in Linux i.e like 'C' drive and 'D' drive of Windows. Where are they and how they look like or differ. How to know where is the partition and what is the size of those partitions.
For all these only answer is
fdisk
Type this in your terminal and you will see
Device, Boot, start, end, blocks, Id, System
click this link to know more about the Hard-disks arrangement in the form of Master, Slave
Primar Master, Seconder Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Slave
/dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, /dev/hdd and
/dev/sda...........
after knowing this now you want to know what is the name of those partitions in your file system for that use the command
df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
ok enough now come to our Pendrive format
there are two usefull commands one is
to format and second one is to provide the lable to the pendrive the same you can try for other devices.
$ sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1(/dev/sda1 is your USB Pendrive letus assume know this using fdisk, df commands)
Becarefull while entering the partition name i.e /dev/sda1 wrong number will erase the device data may be i.e hard disk so be caution when you use this command and make sure one more time.
2. Now to label the device use the following$ sudo e2label /dev/sda1 usb-pen
Very very important for you is below one i.e Create an MS-DOS/Windows XP file system under Linux, by entering /dev/sda1 is your pendrive:
$ sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
why this is important is when you want to use the pendrive in Windows XP system the file system must be compatible to that also i.e vfat file system is compatible with both linux and Windows right now. So always use this one only.
Alright now you are ready to use the pendrive.
This is also helps when you are unable to format the pendrive in Windows. Here in linux you can wipe out and create the new format drive.
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