FAT32 is an old file system, NTFS is better and faster. Below are some tools that allow you to format your USB Flash Drive to the desired format, including those that are compatible with Apple’s macOS or Linux. To access removable media, go to the top-right corner of the application and choose the removable media. The format utility dialog offers just NTFS, and exFAT file systems for USB drives larger than 32GB. By default it goes to the hard drive of your computer. When it’s recognized the drives, you’ll see a screen as below. It takes some time to search for all the disks present on the system. To do that, go to the Unity dash and search for GParted. You can install it using the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T): sudo apt-get install gparted Step 2: It’s a free and open source partition manager for Linux.
And thus I came up with this tutorial to help others learn how to format a SD card or USB key in Ubuntu.
I had to go around and format the removable disk with the help of GParted. The above mentioned error is a known bug which has been unresolved for months – despite this, Disks is still being served as the default disk utility program (why?).
