How to format USB FlashDisk

Sometime you need to format your USB FlashDisk. To do that, follow these steps :

1.Plug in your USB FlashDisk into USB port on your Linux computer

2.Open the terminal

3.Un mount the USB FlashDisk


Code :
# umount /media/MSMUNIR5/

4.Determine USB FlashDisk's device address

Code :
# fdisk -l

Based on this information, we know that the USB Flash Disk has a device address /dev/sdb1. You can check the capacity.

5.Now, you can format your USB FlashDisk or /dev/sdb1. And give the new name such as “MSMUNIR9”.

Code :
# mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n MSMUNIR9 -I /dev/sda

6.Unplug USB FlashDisk and plug again. Check the label name.

by. msmunir@batan.go.id