Do you want to format an USB pen drive on Linux, but you do not know how to do it? GParted is the solution.
Format an USB pen drive on Linux is highly recommended because it offers several benefits:
- it will erase all previous data – important if you stored sensitive data (that you don’t longer need);
- it allow you to choose a file system that better suit your need;
- it can reduce the file fragmentation on the disk and therefore improve the performances of the pen drive (this requires to copy the files elsewhere first and copy them back after the format).