Re: How to format a USB drive?

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On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Todd Cary wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Todd Cary <todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:  How to format a USB drive?
> 
> I have a usb drive, /media/disk and I want to reformat it.  There
> are several questions that come up:
>
> How can I determine the current format?
>
> Do I use the mkfs command?

Hi Todd.

One way is to install Gparted and look at the USB drive in 
the GUI.

You can then reformat it to whatever you want in Gparted.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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