format thumbdrive.

[Michael]

I remembered what the command is: mkfs
But I enter the command and:
$ sudo mkfs -text4 /dev/sdc
mke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
Creating filesystem with 15436800 4k blocks and 3866624 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 009598a2-cbbe-4970-abd0-f75f3c4de28a
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing 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 at 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 at 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?
>>
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