My own favourite GUI tool for this job is GParted. Ubuntu 11Īsk Ubuntu has this exact question already answered: How to format USB or external drive in 11.10? - note how this just walks you through using the Palimpsest Disk Utility. Otherwise, there's a ‘Format Drive’ button which'll do everything for you. If it has a partition already, click the ‘Format’ button. It's quite trivial to use: just select your USB drive from the left. KDEįire up the KDE Partition Manager (if you don't have it, the Debian/Ubuntu package name is a slightly non-standard partitionmanager). It depends on your distribution and how recent it is. If you need an NTFS filesystem, there's always mkfs.ntfs, but you should be aware that some implementations are buggy. Sudo mkfs.vfat -n "Volume Label" /dev/whatever_the_device_is
If you want a pristine filesystem, make sure the filesystem is unmounted first: sudo umount /dev/whatever_the_device_is You will not be asked to confirm! This won't touch hidden files (recycling bin folders from Windows or Mac, etc). make a filesystem - you can't format USB sticks in the corrects sense of the word) the stick if you just want to delete all files.Īssuming the stick is mounted under /media/something, you can say: sudo rm -rf /media/something/* You don't necessarily need to ‘format’ (i.e. There are lots of different ways to do this.
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