I can't format my live-USB pendrive (udisks-error-quark, 11)
If you don't have any valuable data on that drive you can create a new partition table with Gnome Disks if it doesn't like the current one:
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Click on the cogwheel for drive operations and select “Format…”.
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Select a suitable partition table type and click on “Format…” again. For a USB flash drive you probably want “MBR/DOS” as the partition type like in the screenshot.
Confirm that you want to overwrite the partition table and lose all data on the drive.
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Afterwards create a new partition and format it.
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Click on the button with the ✚ sign below the partition layout.
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Select
- suitable partition boundaries (you probably want to cover the entire available space which is the default),
- a file system (for a USB drive probably FAT, exFAT, or NTFS), and
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optionally a name.
Click on “Create”, wait a while for the file system creation to finish (can be in the range of minutes for a large but slow drive) and you’re done!
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The best way to do is...
Open Terminal
sudo fdisk -l
This will list your all mounted/unmounted device..
Look for your USB device ... you can cross-verify it by from the Disk utility...It may list something like
/dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1...
sudo fdisk /dev/sdb --- if your USB is sdb
Command (m for help): d Partition number (1,2, default 2):
Partition 2 has been deleted.
Command (m for help): d Selected partition 1 has been deleted.
Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered. Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks.
That's it.
Now go back to Disk utility and then format the drive as you wish!...
I had this problem before and i fix it like this:
- install GParted and open it.
- from upper-right part select your USB Flash Memory.
- select your storage from list box and create a partition table (menu bar: device -> create partition table).
- create one or some partitions and format them by GParted or any other partition programs.
good luck