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How to Command Line Format a Thumb Drive on Linux

Every now and then you find yourself on a distro where the GUI tools to format a thumb drive simply aren’t there or aren’t the ones you know about so you don’t find them. As always, the terminal is your friend. Simply plug in your thumb drive and wait for your machine to auto-mount it. Then open a terminal. sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdc: 14.9 GiB, 16026435584 bytes, 31301632 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * … How to Command Line Format a Thumb Drive on LinuxRead more