Format a USB stick on Ubuntu

published Nov 05, 2013 02:30   by admin ( last modified Nov 05, 2013 02:32 )

Taken from: Link - How to format a USB flash drive? - Ask Ubuntu

 

sudo fdisk -l

It will show all the volumes. My stick was at /dev/sdb1 .

Change /dev/sdb1 if the USB stick isn't there and enter its correct address.

If the USB stick is at /dev/sdb1, unmount it with:

sudo umount /dev/sdb1

Then format it with fat32 like so:

sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1