How do I format a thumb drive in Kubuntu Hardy KDE 3.5.9

[Mark Halegua]

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 08:11:26 pm Steven Vollom wrote:
> Meti info says that the thumb drive has only 25% of 1gb remaining;
> Dolphin says the drive is empty.  Apparently it is nearly full, because
> when I try to put a 700mb file in it, it says it does not have room for
> it.  TIA for any help.
> Steven

A client of mine had the same complaint.  When I looked at it I used the 
ls -la arguments so ALL the files, including the . (dot) files, which are 
normally invisible, become visible.

Mark