I want to be able to insert a USB Flash Drive, click on an Icon and then click Format. No command line, just a click or two. I'm using Solus/KDE Plasma which comes with KDE Partition Manager which isn't very intuitive or nice. I was looking at MintStick, but it might not work on Solus, and it doesn't look like it's easy for a beginner like me to install.

Do you want the drive to be portable to Windows and Mac systems? If so, you want to create a single msdos partition and format it with a vfat/fat32 filesystem. This is the way most USB drives are formatted now. Old smaller drives used fat16.

Unfortunately, there are lots of reasons to use other formats for specific purposes so programs that do this are unlikely to have the one-click option you are looking for. They will also want to provide you with a bunch of options that you don't care about like volume labels and system information files, because programmers are always surprised when people don't want more options.

Anyway, the way to do this in KDE partitionmanager is not one-click:

• Start partitionmanager
• Enter password
• Make sure to select the correct disk!!!! Should say something like USB Flash Memory
• Click New Partition Table - select MS-Dos - hit OK
• Double click the free space to bring up the New Partition Dialog
• Leave most defaults - Primary partition, size is entire disk, just change File System to Fat32 - hit OK
• If it looks right, and you're sure its the right disk, click Apply

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The most common GUI partition editor for Linux I am aware of is GParted. You can download and install it from the site below.

https://solus.pkgs.org/rolling/solus..._64.eopkg.html

GParted has an online manual at the link below. Open/run Gparted and select the drive from the drop down list in the upper right and simply select the drive/partition to format and select to format and the filesystem type. You should not have any problem understanding the detailed instructions the manual. There is a section on Selecting a partition and another on formatting it along with a number of other actions..

https://gparted.org/display-doc.php%...%3Dhelp-manual

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I'm not looking for a Partition Manager, I'm looking for a Format Utility. Thank you

Not the answer to the question I asked, but thank you anyway. I guess I'll just have to find someone who knows how to install MintStick, that is if it will work in Solus.

In case you cannot install MintStick you might want to try gnome-dik-utility, which you may find simpler than KDE partition manager or GParted which are more or less the same. Still not a one click solution, but it does not take more than a couple of minutes with any of these applications. If you want a faster approach try the terminal.

Hello, looks like mintstick can be installed, but I don't know how, I'm quite new with Linux. http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/m...pt-config-kde/

I am not familiar with Solus. Since you are trying this package I assume it is a Debian derivative.

deb packages can be installed from a terminal by using the "dpkg -i <package>" command.
dpkg does not install dependencies. If it has any you have to install them manually.

Edit. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/d...basics.en.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg

I haven't tried it yet, and yes there are dependencies. I tried a sudo command but it didn't work, I have virtually no experience with installing different apps on Linux. Solus is real quick, very fast on my small Micro$oft Surface Go Laptop.