Newbish thumb drive reformatting

[b0gman]

Simple question I am trying to reformat a thumb drive in mint 7 gnome can someone suggest a utility to do this

[mick55]

To begin you need to know your drives device name

run this command in terminal[Menu->Terminal]

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mount

This will list all your mounted drives.

The USB drive will return a result like:
/dev/sdd1 on /media/KINGSTON type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,short-etc)

now we need to unmount the drive to format it

run this command in terminal[Menu->Terminal]

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umount /dev/sdx

change "x" to your drives number/letter

To format it, run this command

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sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdx

You can then remount the device.

[Lantesh]

Nice tutorial Mick55.

[mick55]

Thanks Lantesh!

nice of you to say so.

[atlef]

And if you want to do this with a GUI, install GParted.

atlef.