[xubuntu-users] Inquiry

[Klaus Maas]

Missed that one. Sorry dps.

gparted or disks, either one will do the job.

Klaus


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On 11/01/2020 09.12, dps wrote:
> I know that others have touched on this subject already, but the 
> easiest way that I have found for someone who is knew to work with the 
> disk drives and anything that can be mounted, like your USB drive, is 
> by using the software "gnome disks". You can install it by running 
> sudo apt install gnome-disk-utility in your terminal, and it will show 
> up in you menu. Just select the USB drive from the list on the left, 
> and then click the hamburger menu at the top right and it will give 
> you a drop down list of a few different things, one in particular is 
> the "format option"
>  I know that gparted is a great tool, but you can do just about 
> everything that you can do in it, inside of the more "user friendly" 
> disks utility. I have been using it for a long time now, and haven't 
> ever had the need to use gparted over disks, except for in situations 
> that "disks" isn't available.
>
> Cheers!
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 6:04 pm, Victor Forberger 
> <vforberger at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> On 1/10/20 5:47 PM, Spackman, Chris wrote:
>>>  On 2020/01/08 at 03:47am, John wrote:
>>>
>>>>  I can't find the format option when I right click the USB drive.
>>>>
>>>>  Eventually,I can't format the drive.
>>>>  I also can't rename the USB drive.
>>>
>>>  Disclaimer: I'm not in front of my Xubuntu box right now, so I'm going
>>>  from memory.
>>>
>>>  I would suggest installing GParted and using that. There might be a 
>>> more
>>>  new-user friendly method, though, so if you install and open 
>>> GParted and
>>>  get intimidated, maybe wait for a better answer. Please be careful -
>>>  used carelessly, gparted can reformat your main drive, which would
>>>  probably ruin your day.
>>>
>>>  That said, GParted is pretty easy to use. Select the usb drive from 
>>> the
>>>  drop down menu at the top right. Right click on the area showing the
>>>  drive space / partitions. Choose "format to" and then the file system
>>>  type that you want. Usual choices are vfat (fat32 I think it is 
>>> called?)
>>>  if you plan to use the usb drive on other, non-Linux, computers 
>>> (such as
>>>  MS Windows or Apple Macs). If it is just for use on Linux, ext3 or 
>>> ext4
>>>  are good choices.
>>>
>>>  To give the usb stick a name, use the "Label" or "Name" fields when 
>>> you
>>>  format it (I honestly forget which one it is - Label, I think, but not
>>>  sure.)
>>>
>>>  For most straight-forward stuff like reformatting, GParted doesn't do
>>>  anything until you tell it to. So, for example, if you have selected
>>>  "Format to => fat32" and added a label, it won't actually do anything
>>>  until you go to "Edit => Apply All Actions". Then, it will do it. 
>>> Until
>>>  you do that, you can cancel / undo and redo all you like until you get
>>>  everything like you want. After you click "Apply All Actions", you
>>>  cannot undo.
>>>
>>>  But, like I said, please be careful. Double and triple check that you
>>>  have chosen the correct drive before you apply any changes. Read any
>>>  messages that GParted gives you very carefully and don't click 
>>> anything
>>>  if you don't understand what it is telling you.
>>>
>>
>> As noted above, gparted is the answer. Volume info and formatting cannot
>> be done from the desktop.
>>
>> You may need to install additional drivers/libraries depending on your
>> usb stick. Gparted will prompt you about the missing drivers/libraries.
>>
>> For more info, see the help section on formatting a drive at
>> <https://docs.xubuntu.org/1804/user/C/hardware-devices.html#disks-partitions>. 
>>
>>
>> - Victor
>>
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