How can I wipe a flash drive from Linux?
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I recently used a flash drive to try MeeGo on my netbook. Unfortunately, the application I used to write MeeGo to the flash drive created a new partition in a rather unusual format. The Ubuntu disk utility can't delete the partition, and GParted can't even see it. How can I completely wipe the flas…
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Have you tried ? In a terminal, run where should be replaced with the device file for your flash drive. Once you get open, type to list the partition table, and if the mysterious partition is listed, you can use to delete it. ( is the number of the …
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