Format Thumb Drive Mac Command Line

The command line also works in the same way as the disk utility to format the USB drive. Follow the steps to format FAT32 with the Terminal command line: Step 1: Plug the USB flash drive that needs to be formatted to a Mac computer. Step 2: To run Spotlight press cmd + space and type: terminal and press Enter. Here the USB Drive that is connected, is disk2 and we will format this disk only. To format the USB drive here we will write the following command. Diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Belal disk2. In the above command eraseDisk is the format command. Then comes JHFS+ is the Disk Type which is Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Then Belal is the name of the disk that will be assigned after formatting.

Format A Thumb Drive Mac

With a bootable Ubuntu USB stick, you can:

Format A Flash Drive Mac

Install or upgrade Ubuntu, even on a Mac
Test out the Ubuntu desktop experience without touching your PC configuration
Boot into Ubuntu on a borrowed machine or from an internet cafe
Use tools installed by default on the USB stick to repair or fix a broken configuration

Creating a bootable USB stick is very simple, especially if you’re going to use the USB stick with a generic Windows or Linux PC. We’re going to cover the process in the next few steps.

Create Mac OS X bootable USB installation media. Before you can use TransMac, you first need to partition your USB flash drive with a GPT partition, as a normal MBR partition may not work. To do this, you’ll need to use the Diskpart command-line utility on Windows 10. Setting up GPT partition. Use these steps to set up a USB drive with a GPT. If you want to 'eject' your drive, like you would on the Mac, you need to issue a command to unmount the drive. It looks like this: sudo umount usbdrv if you want to remount it, i.e. Put another drive in, since there is no mounting point setup, you have to use the device info, with the command sudo mount /dev/sda1. Method 1: Use Disk Utility Step 1:. Plug the USB drive that needs to be formatted to the Mac computer. Navigate to Applications and then to Utilities. Tap it twice to open. Choose the drive that needs to be formatted and tap on Erase. You can rename the USB drive if.

Format Thumb Drive Bootable

Apple hardware considerations

Using Thumb Drive On Mac

Format External Hard Drive Mac

There are a few additional considerations when booting the USB stick on Apple hardware. This is because Apple’s ‘Startup Manager’, summoned by holding the Option/alt (⌥) key when booting, won’t detect the USB stick without a specific partition table and layout. We’ll cover this in a later step.