I remembered what the command is: mkfsBut I enter the command and:$ sudo mkfs -text4 /dev/sdcmke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)Creating filesystem with 15436800 4k blocks and 3866624 inodesFilesystem UUID: 009598a2-cbbe-4970-abd0-f75f3c4de28aSuperblock backups stored on blocks:32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,4096000, 7962624, 11239424Allocating group tables: doneWriting inode tables: doneCreating journal (32768 blocks): doneWriting superblocks and filesystem accounting information:and it just sits there as if it is waiting for a variable.What should I do?On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 8:57 AM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:I left click on it (why didn't I think of that) and format it but it does not allow me to copy to it. I then tried with tty and it says 'permission denied'. Another thing, it does not take the label I assign to it.On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 2:37 AM Jim <jim.nantz15@comcast.net> wrote:---------------------------------------------------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~(-: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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