how to format USB drive in linux complete tutorial

just follow this article if have problem to formating USB in linux

1. insert USB drive and wait till mounts

2. open terminal and login as super user

sudo su
or
sudo -i

 3. find the device name

fdisk -l

check and copy or remember the device name, for example /dev/sdb2

4. formating the USB

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 (if you are using ext3)
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 (if you are using FAT)

5. create USB labels

mkfs.vfat -n ‘labels’ -I /dev/sda
replace 'label' name with yours

and done.