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Re: [trinity-users] Removing multiple partitions from a USB stick.

From: "E. Liddell" <ejlddll@...>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2019 08:07:41 -0400
On Sat, 6 Apr 2019 11:13:11 +0200
gregory guy <g-gregory@...> wrote:

> On 4/6/19 10:45 AM, Baron wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I've been trying without any success to remove multiple partitions
> > from a USB stick !  Please can any kind soul help by telling me how
> > to do this.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >  
> Each time I have to deal with partitions, should they be on hard-disks
> or USB sticks, I make use of gparted.

Exactly.  fdisk should also work.  USB sticks are just block devices--not
special in any way.  Typically they come from the factory with old-style
DOS partition tables and FAT32 filesystems.

E. Liddell