Re: How do I format a thumb drive?

Keith Duthie <[email protected]>
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On the contrary - a full device filesystem should still work. It's
just considered good practice to have a partition table (and may or
may not be needed for it to work on mac and windows machines).

On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Philip Charles <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 15:27 +1200, Robin Sheat wrote:
>> Worik Stanton schreef op wo 04-06-2014 om 14:49 [+1200]:
>> > But that no longer works, or my memory is faulty
>>
>> What does "no longer works" mean? What happens when you try?
>>
>> You can do it through the GUI too, but I forget exactly how.
>>
>> Robin.
>
> You need to create a partition first then you can format /dev/sdb1
>
> Phil.
>
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