GNome Partition Editor
Jason E. Dorfler
JDorfler at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 09:47:04 UTC 2008
Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:16:46 +0800
> "Jason E. Dorfler" <JDorfler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I also wanted to use the partition editor to
>> reformat the thumb drive to fat32 to make doubly sure that there is
>> nothing left on the drive. At this time, after I tried, I received an
>> error stating it was not possible to format the drive. Is there a thumb
>> drive formatter out there that can do this for me with Ubuntu? Thanks.
>
> You need to unmount the drive before you format it - for instance if the
> drive is /dev/sdb1 ,
>
> sudo umount /dev/sdb1 <--- no "n" in "umount"
>
> Notice that you format a *partition*, not the whole "drive" most USB thumb
> drives have only one partition, so the device/partition would look like
> /dev/sd?1 where "?" could be a,b,c and so on.
>
> Once unmounted, you can format it either from the command line or using
> something like gparted, (the Gnome partition editor).
>
> With gparted it's less nerve-wracking - just unmount using its GUI, then
> format. Might be the easier way if you prefer that. If gparted can't
> format the drive after you have unmounted it, something else is wrong...
>
> Peter
>
>
Thank you very much.
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