Comments on: Ubuntu Linux format USB pen drive

By: pandi

pandi — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:07:12 +0000

hai..
see my memory card is corrupted (ie) its actual memory 1GB but now its showing only 24KB.. while formating it show 1ly “FAT” not other… i tried in command mode, no use..

“”"”"” format j: /fs:fat32″”"”"”"”"”"”
after enter-
“”‘”"”the volume too small for FAT”"”"”
wat to do… give some idea

By: santosh

santosh — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:39:18 +0000

Thanks a lot for this tip,it works super ;)

By: john

john — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:32:34 +0000

To find device name
dmesg |tail

By: Erick

Erick — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:39:35 +0000

And with a virus gift attached to it. I once formatted in that simple way you describe only to realize that some executables “passengers files” stay on it, I formatted the memory in linux and problem solved.

By: Mike the BookRaider

Mike the BookRaider — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:02:09 +0000

Vicky: I’ll bet you’ve already found your answer elsewhere; thanks a lot for not posting back.

Anyway, the answer to this question, for all newbies, is umount /dev/*da* , where *da* is replaced either by hda[number] (for EIDE drives) or sda[number] (for serial/USB drives).

By: Vicky

Vicky — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:59:14 +0000

please help me in this…

By: ramesh

ramesh — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:25:55 +0000

i have formated my 2 GB, HP pen drive and i copied data into that and after removed insert pen drive is not even show desktop icon also please help me….

By: Vicky

Vicky — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 08:59:34 +0000

What are the commands for unmounting the drives in ubuntu………..

By: vinny

vinny — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:59:28 +0000

Yet Another Lab Admin and vandit:

All you have to do is run visudo and edit the /etc/sudoers file.
You can give specific users access to run specific programs as su.

Though I don’t think giving lab users the rights to run fdisk or mkfs is a good idea at all.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:03:49 +0000

Sometimes a system is configured in such a way that when errors are on the device the device is remounted read-only.

By: marcinb

marcinb — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:38:40 +0000

ive got the same as you. my pendrive turns “read only”. formating helps, but problem every time comes back. anyone knows why?

By: PAco

PAco — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:42:57 +0000

Hi,

My HP 8GB pendrive turns “read only” after a few use. I tried to format it without success nor in windws nor in linux.

The error is always de same: “read only filesystem” or similar.

Can anybody help me please?

REgards,

Paco

By: Ashok.Konapakula.

Ashok.Konapakula. — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:44:04 +0000

can any body give me instructions or commands to format the memory card in the terminal of ubuntu…

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:21:29 +0000

Hey! sda usually is the hard disk!! pen drive usually is sdb, so you will try to format /dev/sdb1 !!
Using GParted is much more user-friendly and secure:
sudo apt-get install gparted
sudo gparted

By: hsartoris

hsartoris — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:11:42 +0000

@ben white:
clearly, you are not supposed to enter dev/sda1 when you are actually formatting. That was an example, and you need to replace it with the drive address of your unmounted pen drive.

By: ben white

ben white — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:04:02 +0000

Do NOT do this.
on some machines /dev/sda is the hardrive.
you will lose all your data.

By: ams amosog

ams amosog — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:42:31 +0000

when I try to open my pen drive after inserting it into my PC, it tells me to insert a disk into Drive E.
why?, and how can solve this problem?.

By: linuxer

linuxer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:18:13 +0000

This how-to doc was soooo helpful. Thanks a lot!

By: shameer

shameer — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:22:53 +0000

simple but great help…thankz

By: Rohit Jadhav

Rohit Jadhav — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:40:31 +0000

hi,
I am in deep trouble my pen-drive has become a read only pen drive. Tried out the tutorial above to format my pen-drive but it did not work.Also tried out every possible way to format my pen-drive but could not format my drive.Also not allowed to change permission for the drive even as root user…please HELP.