I'm a new ubuntu user (loving it), but I have a little problem right now.
I have a USB Pen that needs formatting.
What's the best GUI driven USB formater for Linux?
Thanx in advance
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1Maybe GParted? ehow.com/how_4963426_format-usb-flash-drive-ubuntu.html– AkiJan 10, 2011 at 17:15
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Gnome Format is pretty good, Gparted too but it takes a little too long to start and if you want to use it regulary, it gets annoying. Gnome format is in the repositories since 9.04 i believe.
I'm a big fan of Gparted, which has been in the repositories for as long as I can remember. You can run it from the Administration menu after you install with this command:
sudo apt-get install gparted
If you're dealing with larger media, Gparted does take a while to scan all discs. To go around this, start up a terminal and type in:
gksudo gparted /dev/sdx
where sdx is the pendrive you want to format. This will have gparted scan only the disc you want to format, and speeds it up quite a bit. gksudo works better than sudo when launcher graphical applications.
The preinstalled Ubuntu Disk Utility seems friendly enough and provides other useful options (ejection) for flash drives. It's located under System -> Administration -> Disk Utility.
