How To Format A USB with Linux 💿

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Optical media does not have the best storage, normally under 1GiB so make sure your files align with the size of the optical media. -

What you will need 📋

Optical drive capable of writing to a CD
A computer with Linux 🐧🖥️
The ability to read instructions and to follow them 🧠

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Steps to burn 🔥

You will only need one program to burn media to a CD; the name of that program is wodim, and it is part of a collection of programs called cdrkit, as in thename ofe this collection of programs that allow you to do a whole variaty of things withopticall media! -

Optical media does not have the best storage, normally under 1GiB so make sure your files align with the size of the optical media. +

What you will need 📋

Optical drive capable of writing to a CD
A computer with Linux 🐧🖥️
The ability to read instructions and to follow them 🧠

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Steps to burn 🔥

1) Install cdrkit, on some Linux distrobutions cdrkit is already installed, but on my main Linux distrobution Arch Linux, it is not so check you have it installed, the package on your distro will most likely be called cdrkit.

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sudo pacman -S cdrkit

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sudo pacman -S cdrkit

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2) You want to get whatever data you want into an ISO file, so if you had a file called movies that held movies you would use the command.

mkisofs -o movies.iso movies

movies.iso being the output ISO and movies being the directory with the movies in there.

2) You want to get whatever data you want into an ISO file, so if you had a file called movies that held movies you would use the command.

mkisofs -o movies.iso movies

movies.iso being the output ISO and movies being the directory with the movies in there.

3) Now the last command is the actual event of burning the optical media! So insert it into your optical drive and type this command.

wodim -v dev=/dev/sr0 movies.iso

movies.iso being the output ISO from the last command.

3) Now the last command is the actual event of burning the optical media! So insert it into your optical drive and type this command.

wodim -v dev=/dev/sr0 movies.iso

movies.iso being the output ISO from the last command.

4) Now it is time to sit back and wait for it to burn; do not get impatient; give it time, and it will burn. When it is done, you may enject the optical media from the CD drive, and it should have all the files you desire.

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That is all the required steps to burn optical media on Linux, I hope this has helped you!

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+  4) Now it is time to sit back and wait for it to burn; do not get impatient; give it time, and it will burn. When it is done, you may enject the optical media from the CD drive, and it should have all the files you desire.


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That is all the required steps to burn optical media on Linux, I hope this has helped you!
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How to burn an ISO to a USB stick 💾

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Burning an ISO onto a USB stick on Linux is very easy, and you only need to use a few commands!

What you will need 📋

A USB drive
A computer with Linux 🐧🖥
The ability to read instructions and to follow them 🧠

After following all of these steps, your USB should have the ISO image burned into it. I hope this has helped you burn a Linux or BSD distro to a USB!

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Formatting USBs With Linux 🔌🔥

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Formatting a USB in Linux is easier then burning an ISO and only needs a few quick commands!

What you will need 📋

A USB drive
A computer with Linux 🐧🖥
The ability to read instructions and to follow them 🧠

A USB drive
A computer with Linux 🐧🖥
The ability to read instructions and to follow them 🧠

Formatting the USB

1) The first thing you want to do is plug in your USB stick and identify the USB stick's name.

lsblk

Normally the USB will be something like sdX; a tip on identifying it is by looking at the size of the USB in the table that lsblk gives you!

Formatting the USB

1) The first thing you want to do is plug in your USB stick and identify the USB stick's name.

lsblk

Normally the USB will be something like sdX; a tip on identifying it is by looking at the size of the USB in the table that lsblk gives you!

2) Now you need to use a program called fdisk that will allow you to create a new partition table for the USB, this will format the USB.

sudo fdisk /dev/sdX

You will need to press the following keys to make a new partition table for the USB.

o - Creates a new DOS partition table
n - New partition, press enter to all that follows
w - Writes the partition table

Give fdisk a minute to write the new partition to the USB.

2) Now you need to use a program called fdisk that will allow you to create a new partition table for the USB, this will format the USB.

sudo fdisk /dev/sdX

You will need to press the following keys to make a new partition table for the USB.

o - Creates a new DOS partition table
n - New partition, press enter to all that follows
w - Writes the partition table

Give fdisk a minute to write the new partition to the USB.

3) Now is the time to give that partition a file system. You should look into this beforehand to see what file system you want, but I will use ext4 because it was made for Linux use.

sudo mkfs.ext4 -L "Backup-USB" /dev/sdXx

The small x represents the number of the partition; the -L flag is used to give the USB stick a name.

sudo mkfs.ext4 -L "Backup-USB" /dev/sdXx

The small x represents the number of the partition; the -L flag is used to give the USB stick a name.

Finished ✅

All done! Now you have an empty USB stick you can use for all your files!

Finished ✅

All done! Now you have an empty USB stick you can use for all your files!

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