Reset flash drive

posted 1 year ago

I’ve been messing with my flash drives trying to follow some random documentation with dd and now both of my flash drives are reporting 0 bytes of free space. I was trying to clear out everything and start from scratch as if they were new. I wonder if there are any program out there that can just sudo reset-everything /dev/sdX

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iter_facio@lemmy.one

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1 year ago

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$sudo sgdisk --zap-all /dev/SD{x}

$sudo wipefs -a /dev/SD{x}

The first wipes any existing partitions or data that exist.

The second wipes any data in the table headers if anything is left?

Those have worked for most times I needed it

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