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You can use the Disk Utility that comes packaged with Ubuntu, or you can use the Terminal.

In either case, you can have your USB drive formatted in just a few minutes.

Most USB drives will only have one volume, but if yours has multiple volumes you can select one or all of them.

A Slow format will erase all of the data and check for errors on the drive.

There are several different file systems that you can choose from.

This will work on all computers and virtually any other device that works with USB drives.

This will allow you to use Linuxs advanced file permissions.

This may take a while for larger drives, and erasing all of the data will add to the time it takes.

This will display a list of storage devices attached to the computer.

Type the following command, and replace sdb1 with your USB drives partition label.

You can delete everything on the drive by entering the following command.

Type the following command, replacing sdb with your USB drives label.

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Enter the full size of the drive if you are just creating a single partition.

Now that youve created the new volume, you can format it with the file system of your choosing.

Once the format is complete, you can safely eject your device: 2.

Instead of selecting the optioncompatible with all systems, select FORMAT DISK-PARTITIONING-No Partitioning(Empty).

Click the dashboard button and search for Disks.

Double-click Disks.

Select your USB drive.

Select at least one volume.

Click Format. 6. Select a format option.

Select a file system.

Click Format.

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