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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