Quick-Formatter Fails

Robin

I had recommended this tool before, called FreeBSD -USB-Quick-Formatter. Not in our repositories but just a script to execute the usual "destroy" and "make" commands. Well, for some reason it simply doesn't work. It erases the disk, but doesn't format it as "fat32" when requested. Sunsequent uses of the USB stick give an error message: "No USB drive detected." I hereby withdraw my recommendation. ☠️

ericbsd

OK, good to know.

vimanuelt

Would a USB Formatter (TUI) app suffice?

Select the USB drive, then select either FAT32, UFS, NTFS, or Ext4. It works well.

2025/02/09 19:24:34 Successfully formatted da3 as FAT32
2025/02/09 19:26:16 Successfully formatted da3 as UFS
2025/02/09 19:32:38 Successfully formatted da3 as NTFS
2025/02/09 19:37:04 Successfully formatted da3 as Ext4