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Re:Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers by pjmlp on Saturday November 24, 2018 @05:40AM (#18521415)
That is the problem right there, you need to know mkfs exists to start with.
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Re:Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers by kurtisc on Saturday November 24, 2018 @08:13AM (#18521852)
apropos file system

You'll be searching (or using previous knowledge) for what you need to format it as, anyway.

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Re:Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers by marmaduke on Saturday November 24, 2018 @01:32PM (#18523324)
Well one needs to know the Disk Utility exists as well, or disk management thingy in Windows.
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Re:Nnn – a terminal file manager for programmers by pjmlp on Saturday November 24, 2018 @01:39PM (#18523344)
Sure, but that is available on a simple right mouse click on the device.

In any case you are focusing too much on mkfs, I can think of plenty of other examples, many of each aren't even portable across UNIX environments.

While GUIs at least can offer navigation and visual cues as means to discover features.

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