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Format pen drive or disk form command line
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command-line-disk-format.md

Format pen drive or disk form command line.

  1. Check list of disk or drives including partitions
$ lsblk
  1. Un mount drive
$ sudo umount /dev/sdbx
  1. Format USB with Extended File System(EXT)
$ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdbx
  1. Format USB with File Allocation Table(FAT)
$ sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdbx
  1. Format USB with New Technology File System(NTFS)
$ sudo mkfs.ntfs /dev/sdbx

Note: x = partition number

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