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How to Format a USB drive in Ubuntu

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Karim Buzdar
Oct 2, 2018

Time and again, we need to format a USB drive in order to change the file system, to completely wipe off the data, or to get rid of a virus infecting it. There are various ways to format a USB drive, and we have listed a few in this article so that you can see which one works for you.
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Karim Buzdar

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