Format Pen Drive in Linux
Insert your USB pen drive. Let it get detected and mounted. Open Terminal. Type The Following commands 1. dmesg |tail –> here the ‘|’ key is the pipe, ie, the key before the backspace key(the upper one, so press shift) You’ll get something like sathya@shaman:~$ dmesg |tail [ 9921.681164] sda: Write Protect is off [ 9921.681174] sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 [ 9921.681178] sda: assuming drive cache: write through [ 9921.709138] SCSI device sda: 4030464 512-byte hdwr sectors (2064 MB) [ 9921.720951] sda: Write Protect is off [ 9921.720963] sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 [ 9921.720967] sda: assuming drive cache: write through [ 9921.721225] sda: [ 9921.727896] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda [ 9921.744187] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 Note the terms in bold. In your system it will be different, maybe sdb or something. Whatever it may be, make sure to substitute it in the commands below, else your hard disk may get formatted. 2. Unmount your pe...