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 -- -- Victor Forberger vforber...@fastmail.fm blog: http://linuxatty.wordpress.com
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