How to format a flash drive?

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I just insert a flash drive, in my computer i just right click it and look for “format” like in the windows, but i didn’t see “format” command.Where is it?I’m using linux open suse 10.3. Please help me.Thanks

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Are you using KDE or Gnome?
Also, is there any reason you are using 10.3 after such a long time?

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> Also, is there any reason you are using 10.3 after such a long time?

long time?
10.3 is supported…
and has been for only 21 months…

and remains stable, dependable and secure…

–
goldie

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Does not matter at all. You cannot format any disk as a normal user. These disks mostly contain a FAT32 file system already.

You can format the disk using the Yast partitioner if you want it to have an other filesystem

10.3 old? I manage some systems still running 9.0 Professional.

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What heresy 10.3 old rotfl! 10.3 and 9.3 professional still happily runs here.

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Sorry, I must be going mad. For some reason I read 10.1, which I believe is no longer supported. Sorry for the offense!

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You can follow the following link to format your drive to any extension you want, Linux or Windows.

Programming and Linux: Search results for format flash drive

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I also seem to remember doing exactly what has been described above in dolphin once, but that may have been on kubuntu, in which i belive it is possible to format attactchable media. Again, this could just be my stupid brain playing tricks on me!

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If you dont want to use the command line, i would definately reccomend using the YaST Partitioner, which is very featureful and quite easy to use.

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Thanks, but from where can i start accessing it?

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Why not use the terminal…easy.
Just one line command will do the format.
You can refer to my post above.

You can open yast partitioner from yast.

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I myself recommend gparted as a graphical partition tool. If you prefer using the commandline, fdisk is the tool you need. Run (…) to understand the latter one.

$ man fdisk