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

[Steven Vollom]

Mark Halegua wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Dear Mark,

I opened ls -la, there was quite a list, but nothing that related to the 
thumb drive.  If any of what I was looking at was in the thumb drive, it 
was not identified in a manner I would understand.  How would I format 
or remove it if I could identify it?

Steven