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greyowl
I downloaded antiX 17.1 core 64 bit iso. I used Live USB Maker to create a live antiX on a thumb drive. It works fine in my laptop, but I don’t want to keep it.
I want to use the USB thumb drive for something else, but I have not been able to erase it or format it.
The USB thumb drive (size 500mb) shows in file manager as two drives:
sdb1 313M antiXlive/media/antiXlive-
sdb2 3M ANTIX-UEFI/media/ANTIX-UEFIHow do I regain use of the USB thumb drive?
Thanks for the help.
- This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by greyowl.
Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)
anticapitalista
Use gparted and set file system to fat32
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
When I tried gparted, I got a pop up Libparted Error: Partition(s) 1 on /dev/sdb have been written, but we have been unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use. As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in use. You should reboot now before making further changes.
It gives the options of: Cancel or Ignore- This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by greyowl.
Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)
I rebooted and was able to use gparted to create sdb1 497M antiXlive (sdb2 3M ANTIX-UEFI also still shows in File Manager.
I tried to use gparted to format sdb1 to fat32, but it didn’t work.
Attached are the details of the results.Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)
Wordfence won’t let me copy and paste the detail nor attach a text document.
The final line of the results of trying to format are:
mkfs.fat: unable to open /dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy
Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)
anticapitalista
Turn off auto-mount before inserting the stick. IIRC it is in the control centre under Disks
- This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by anticapitalista.
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
It worked. I am so glad that I won’t have to trash the thumb drive.
I will take some notes on how to do this in the future.
Thanks so much for your help.Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)
greywolf
Just as a late adjunct to this:
within Gparted there is an option under the “Partition” menu option to “Unmount” a partition. Simply unmount each partition on the stick, then you can do the format.
greywolf.
It is about the Dragons - it was always about the Dragons!
Just as a late adjunct to this:
within Gparted there is an option under the “Partition” menu option to “Unmount” a partition. Simply unmount each partition on the stick, then you can do the format.
greywolf.
Thank you for the explanation.
I have felt rather timid about using these features for fear of damaging the drive.
I will use this method in the future.
Thanks again.Dell Latitude D620 laptop with antiX 22 (64 bit)
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