Ubuntu Tips #1 – Format / Mount a new media Stick
When you connect a USB Stick, SD Card or external HDD and you need to mount it by shell command
by command prompt you can view alla media connected to your pc by
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sudo fdisk -l |
and the result :
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Disco /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 byte 255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, 38913 cilindri Unità = cilindri di 16065 * 512 = 8225280 byte Identificativo disco: 0xce46c7a1 Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 37446 300784963+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 37447 38913 11783677+ 5 Esteso /dev/sda5 37447 38913 11783646 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disco /dev/sdb: 16.1 GB, 16131293184 byte 102 testine, 38 settori/tracce, 8128 cilindri Unità = cilindri di 3876 * 512 = 1984512 byte Identificativo disco: 0x04030201 Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 8129 15752192 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) |
now i found my device the “/dev/sdb1” , to format it on fat 32 :
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sudo umount /dev/sdb1 sudo mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdb1 sudo eject /dev/sdb1 |
so we have formatted the usb stick
