Re: how2 format a flash drive

From	Lee <ler762@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: how2 format a flash drive
Date	2024-06-25 21:40 +0200
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 1:28 PM Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,

Hi,
I don't know what happened, but your msg _finaly_ showed up in my inbox.
Strange how it was delayed for so long..

> Lee wrote:
> > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a
> > "normal" flash drive again?
>
> You have to delete the partitions of the USB stick which came with
> the ISO.
> Then you create one or more partitions.
> Then you format them to a writable filesystem each.
>
> If it shall serve for file exchange with MS-Windows or Macs, then you
> probably want just one partition with FAT as filesystem.
>
> I would do the first and second step by program "fdisk" and the third
> step by program "mkfs.fat".

Yes.  That's the answer.
I was missing the fdisk bit and mkfs wasn't working for me.  Or at
least not working until I did the fdisk :)

> In hindsight it would of course have been advisable to make a copy
> of the USB stick to an image file before putting the netinst ISO onto it.
> Assuming that the USB stick is /dev/sdc and you home directory offers
> enough space for the size of the USB stick this would have been something
> like:
>
>   dd if=/dev/sdc bs=1M of="$HOME"/usb_stick.img
>
> Later you would put it back onto the USB stick the same way as you did
> with the netinst ISO image.

Thanks for that, but all I was using this thumb drive for was putting
movies on it & plugging it into a traver router so I could watch
movies on a TV with no ads.
In other words, there's nothing on the thumb drive that isn't expendable.

Thanks,
Lee

Thread

how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-06-25 16:00 +0200
  Re: how2 format a flash drive "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-06-25 16:30 +0200
    Re: how2 format a flash drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-06-25 16:50 +0200
      Re: how2 format a flash drive "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-06-25 18:30 +0200
        Re: how2 format a flash drive "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2024-06-25 18:50 +0200
      Re: how2 format a flash drive eben@gmx.us - 2024-06-25 19:20 +0200
        Re: how2 format a flash drive David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-06-26 01:00 +0200
    Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-06-25 21:40 +0200
  Re: how2 format a flash drive Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2024-06-25 17:50 +0200
    Re: how2 format a flash drive Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-06-25 18:50 +0200
      Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-06-26 01:30 +0200
    Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-06-25 21:50 +0200
      Re: how2 format a flash drive eben@gmx.us - 2024-06-25 22:20 +0200
      Re: how2 format a flash drive George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-06-26 01:30 +0200
        Re: how2 format a flash drive sd@swampdog.co.uk - 2024-06-27 15:30 +0200
        Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-06-29 18:50 +0200
          Re: how2 format a flash drive Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-06-29 19:40 +0200
            Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 04:40 +0200
              Re: how2 format a flash drive jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 07:50 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 15:10 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-07-01 15:50 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 21:30 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-07-02 05:50 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-07-02 06:10 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-07-02 06:40 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> - 2024-07-02 06:50 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-02 10:20 +0200
                Telemetry, data hoarding [was: how2 format a flash drive] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-07-02 10:30 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-07-02 11:20 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-07-02 17:20 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-02 10:30 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-07-02 11:30 +0200
                Re: how2 format a flash drive Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-02 22:40 +0200
          Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive) Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-06-29 22:50 +0200
            Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-06-30 03:40 +0200
              Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-06-30 08:00 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-06-30 17:40 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 09:00 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 17:10 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-07 23:50 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-07-08 04:40 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-08 16:30 +0200
            Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive) Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 03:40 +0200
              Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive) Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 03:50 +0200
                Re: Browser traffic interception/inspection (was: how2 format a flash drive) Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 07:50 +0200
          Re: how2 format a flash drive Keith Bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2024-06-30 08:20 +0200
          Re: how2 format a flash drive Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 08:00 +0200
  Re: how2 format a flash drive Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> - 2024-07-06 17:50 +0200

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