How to Format Flashdisk on Ubuntu via terminal
Actually, this is just for my notes, but maybe it’s useful for someone else. here’s how to format a flash drive in Ubuntu via the terminal. 1. Open a terminal and log in as sudo user 2. after that type $sudo fdisk -l to see where the flash drive is on which boot device, whether in /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1 or in /dev/sdd1 or something else. 3. Before formatting, you must first unmount it with the following command $sudo umount “locate flsdisk” example: $sudo umount /dev/sdb1 4. lastly type the command format $sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 Congratulations, your flash drive has been formatted.