How to format a USB flash drive?
 

My USB flash drive is 128mb.

How can I format it?

what os are u using?

I used to do it with mkdosfs. These drives use fat or fat32.
mkdosfs (options) target

also do

man:mkdosfs

dosfstools
 

May be you need this package:
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/LOCAL/dosfstools

Afterwards it's easy:

mkdosfs /dev/device_name

(its /dev/sdc1 in my system)


Good Luck!

I'm using Ubuntu Hoary 5.04.

You have to use MKDOSFS because Linux can read FAT partitions, but Windows may not be able to read ext2fs, ext3fs, ReiserFS, and so forth?