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Plug in your flash drive in USB port and wait for 10/15 seconds to let the
system detect it. Check that your system has recognized the drive.
Wipe out everything on flash drive and fill every inch of it with zer0.
Don’t use partition here (eg. sdb1, sdb2 etc) but the device name (eg. sdb, sdc etc)
This command will take some time to complete depending on the size of the flash drive and exit with an
error saying can not write to the disk since disk is full. This error means we have filled the whole disk
with zeros.
By pressing `m’ you will get to see various options provided by `fdisk’
Print the partition table
Since we have filled whole disk with zeros, we will get empty partition table.
Here we have just accepted all defaults to create single partition which takes entire free space
available on disk.
This will write changes to disk and create a new partition table on your flash drive.
Make sure you mention device partition here (sdb1) and not the entire device (sdb).
That’s it. Your flash drive is ready to get overloaded with files again...
- by greenmang0@irc.freenode.net