format usb

[Stephen]

I was going to say you have to give it a partiton to work with. so it would
be sdc1 at least. sdc is a device.


On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> Pull the drive out and do:
> cat /proc/partitions
>
> Then insert the drive into your computer, count to 10 and run the above
> command again.  The new drive that shows up is the one you just inserted.
>  If you don't see any differences, run it again, the drive just might be
> slow in connecting to you system.  If it doesn't show up at all, it might
> be damaged and isn't going to show up... try turning it off and back on
> again :)
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 08/25/2013 11:05 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> Well,  I stuck a usb drive into the computer, opened a terminal, and
>> copied files to it. Then I forgot to umount the drive and pulled the
>> drive out. Now I need to format it and do not know how to do that. How
>> do I see what the drive is being called when I stick it in?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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