[ubuntu-za] Cannot format USB Flash Drive

[Wesley Werner]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Nashvin Gangaram <nashving at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello
>
> I use Linux Mint, and want to find out if this issue is present on Ubuntu
> as well...
>
> I cannot seem to format any of my USB Flash Drives.  I normally right-click
> on the mounted filesystem, and select "Format" (which is not there
> anymore).  I also cannot format the drives using GParted...
>
> Thank You
> Nashvin
>
>
Does GParted have the option disabled too? Make sure you run gparted as root
(sudo gparted) and you might need to unmount the drive before you can format
it, too.
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