Ask Ubuntu Asked by DankyNanky on December 13, 2020
I have a Sandisk Wireless USB Stick, that has data stored on it. Whether Arch, Debian or Ubuntu I am unable to format the unit. Firstly, I attempted gparted
to attempt to format the device (/dev/sdc
) however upon performing the action (and being flagged as "successful") the content of the USB remains.
When I look at blkid
I get the following information:
/dev/sdc1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="833C-CDB0" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="0dfab3a5-01"
/dev/sdc2: LABEL="NEW VOLUME" UUID="523E-7BD9" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="0dfab3a5-02"
Further to this I attempted dd
the disk to get an outcome, but I still get the above behaviour of files magically returning:
home# dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdc bs=1M
Within GNOME Disks, I see 9.2GB worth of data consumed. I am starting to suspect some issue with the USB, but wanted to see if there are any other tools Ubuntu has to offer for disk managememt/formatting.
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