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

[Willy K. Hamra]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> 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
> 

Steven, did you run this command in the thumb drive? you need go to the
directory where the thumb is mounted, usually somewhere in /media , and
once you are in that directory, run "ls -la" . of course, all of this is
inside a terminal.

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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