format thumbdrive.

[Jim]

My mistake. I meant lower right.  Any idea why that wouldn't work for Mike?

On 12/18/18 12:36 AM, Jim wrote:
>
> I have KDE on this dinosaur and I have no trouble formatting them.  i 
> plug it in, then wait for the window that pops up in the lower left 
> telling me my options.  I don't mount it.  I open Gparted or the KDE 
> disk utility and format it.  If that doesn't work for Michael, I would 
> wonder if something's wrong with his system.
>
> On 12/17/18 10:50 PM, Dhruva Lokegaonkar wrote:
>> If you're on Gnome (latest Ubuntu/ Fedora) then you can use
>> gnome-disk-utility. (It's probably just called "Disks" on your computer.)
>>
>> Click on the thumb drive on the left menu, then click on the partition
>> on the right side. (I'm guessing there's only one). Make sure its
>> highlighted. Then Press Control+Shift+F.
>>
>> Give it a name in "Volume Name"
>> Make sure Erase is turned off. (Erase will do a in-depth wipe, which
>> takes very long)
>> Then select "For use with all systems and devices (FAT)" and click next.
>>   (I've attached a screenshot)
>>
>> I'm guessing the rest is self explanatory. I don't have a pen drive
>> handy and I don't want to format my drive haha.
>>
>> If you want to do this from the Command line
>> Use `lsblk` to list all your connected drives and check which drive you
>> want to format. Then check again. and again to make sure.
>> Then copy the device path. (Something like /dev/sdb1) and execute
>> `sudo mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/sdb1`
>> change sdb1 to whatever your drive is.
>> Make sure its the right drive though.
>>
>> On 12/18/18 8:07 AM, Michael wrote:
>>> I thought I would be able to do it without help but I guess I was wrong.
>>> I got a thumbdrive that I want to format. gparted will not do it. Anyone
>>> able to help?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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