How can I format my USB drive in Lubuntu?

Question

I have created a bootable USB drive to install Lubuntu. Now I would like to format the drive so I can use it normally. How can I do that?

Solution

In Lubuntu the terminal might be the fastest way to format a USB drive.

Find the usb partition: lsblk

alvaro@GNUM4600:~$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0 457.9G  0 part /
├─sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part 
└─sda5   8:5    0   7.9G  0 part [SWAP]
sdb      8:16   0 238.5G  0 disk 
└─sdb1   8:17   0 238.5G  0 part 
sdc      8:32   1   1.9G  0 disk /media/alvaro/68A2-E93E   <--------------- This is it *
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  

Unmount it: umount /dev/sdc

alvaro@GNUM4600:~$ umount /dev/sdc

Make the file system on the entire device: sudo mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdc

alvaro@GNUM4600:~$ sudo mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdc

Comments

[Rinzwind]

see the dupe. also: 13.10 is end of life and AskUbuntu drops support for end of life releases at that moment. Please upgrade to 14.04 for support from AU.

[IanS]

This is not a duplicate question because the link by karel provides solutions for standard Ubuntu, which require software additional to that shipped with the default Lubuntu package.

[LuminousNutria]

Is there a way to name the reformatted drive?

[Pedro Boechat]

@LuminousNutria according to the man pages you can specify the volume name with the -n cl option, e.g., sudo mkfs.vfat -n my-disk -I /dev/sdc