[21:26] <panparadox[m]> hello, is there a way to format a pendrive in ubuntu studio? I can't seem to find that option
[21:27] <Eickmeyer[m]> panparadox: https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu#1-overview
[21:28] <Eickmeyer[m]> You can find Startup Disk Creator in Discover on 20.10+, or Software on 20.04.
[21:29] <OvenWerks> panparadox[m]: The partition manger seems to format sticks just fine
[21:29] <Eickmeyer[m]> I misunderstood the question. facepalm
[21:29]  * Eickmeyer[m] facepalms
[21:30] <Eickmeyer[m]> partition manager or gparted do the trick to just format.
[21:30]  * OvenWerks notes that there are lots of command line tools as well :)
[21:32] <OvenWerks> there is the whole group of /sbin/mk*fs* tools
[21:34] <OvenWerks> as well as *fdisk
[21:41] <panparadox[m]> I downloaded a partition manager from Snap Shop and I can't really find an option to format the pendrive
[21:42] <panparadox[m]> and I'm quite new to linux, I don't know how to download stuff through Terminal
[21:46] <OvenWerks> panparadox[m]: a pen drive looks like any other harddrive to linux
[21:46] <OvenWerks> so if you plug a pen drive in and type dmesg in a terminal you should see what the system thinks it is.
[21:47] <OvenWerks> so: 282800.089607] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings
[21:48] <OvenWerks> followed by lots of other lines... at the bottom: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[21:48] <OvenWerks> this means my pin drive is /dev/sdd
[21:48] <OvenWerks> the line just above that on my case shows: sdd: sdd1 sdd2 sdd3 sdd4
[21:51] <OvenWerks> which says there is 4 partitions on this one. you would want to remove all those. Mine has them because I have used dd to copy ISO images of various sizes to the stick and linux sees the left overs as another partition. I go through and remove them all once in a while