Note that the name of our USB block device may be something other than sdb, but it’s almost always of the form sdX, where X usually is an smaller case alphabet like ‘ b’, ‘c’, ‘d‘ and so on but is seldom ‘a’ as it usually denotes the primary block device containing the Operating System. As one can see, at present our USB Drive is not mounted but we’ll fix that in a minute 😀 From the above output, we can also see the size of various partitions as well their mount points. If you have multiple hard disks installed, it will be different for you. Likewise, sdb1 denotes the partition on the USB Drive in our case. Next comes sdbwhich represents our USB Drive as a block device. Here sda is the primary block device whereas sda1, sda2and sda3are the various partitions where the components of the running Operating System are located. After a few seconds itll be formatted to FAT32. Also, feel free to change the name of your USB drive under 'Volume label': Then, click the 'Start' button to format your drive. Managing storage devices whether they are internal hard drives, SSDs, PCIe SSDs, or external USB devices is always a tricky task. ├─sda2 8:2 0 929G 0 part /var/lib/lxd/storage-pools/default Then, click the 'Boot selection' dropdown and select 'Non bootable': Next, click the 'File system' dropdown and select 'FAT32'.

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