Linux Tutorial: Format and Partition a USB from the Terminal

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In this video, I demonstrate how to format and partition a USB from the command line. Below you will find my notes to perform this task.

sudo su
fdisk -l
umount /dev/DEVICE
shred -vf -n 3 /dev/DEVICE
parted /dev/DEVICE
mktable msdos
mkpart primary 0% 100%
quit
mkfs.msdos -F 32 /dev/DEVICE1

Alternate Formats:
mkfs.ext3 /dev/DEVICE
mkfs.ext4 /dev/DEVICE
mkfs.exfat /dev/DEVICE

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