Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size (1-590, default 590): Then delete existing partitions on the drive (/dev/sdd in my case) using the d command:įollowed by creating a new partition (still in fdisk): In this case you need to format the drive on your Linux machine with the following commands.įirst install the package dosfstools, which contains the program to format a file system in msdos (fat): Many USB drives come by default pre-formatted in either FAT32 (which can be read by, to my knowledge, all operating systems) or NTFS, which is of course the Windows file system.īut what if the drive is formatted in another file system type, let's say ext3? You may plug it to a Windows machine and the drive will not be recognized - therefore you cannot re-format the drive from within the Windows machine to re-use it. Published on June 1st 2013 - last updated on November 20th 2020 - Listed in Linux Windows
How to re-format a USB drive to FAT32 in Linux
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