I bought a brand new 8gb pen-drive today with the purpose of putting on a .iso file for a new Linux distribution.
I used
sudo dd if=/path/to/.iso of=/dev/sdb
to write the .iso to the usb drive.
After restarting, and changing the boot order of my drives, boot up went straight to the grub menu.
After reattempting this several times, I conclude that the that there was some problem with the .iso file, or something. I want to erase all of the data on the usb.
So, in trying to reformat the usb, to write over the data I did the command 'df' and my usb drive did not show up mounted. I tried using gparted to delete everything and then format to fat32, and gparted gave me an error.
Is there any suggestions as to how to delete everything on the usb drive, or how to reformat it so as to put a new .iso file on there?
This is on a machine running openSUSE
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