Did you ever have problems formatting your usb stick using linux, e.g. Ubuntu? Tired of buggy GUIs not doing their job?
No more! This tiny python program will fire just the right terminal commands to erase your stick and put a filesystem of your trust on it.
Creating fresh usb sticks for daily usage has never been so easy!
Currently supports NTFS and EXT4 fileystems.
python setup.py install
usage: yauseaf [-h] [-f {ext4,ntfs}] [-L LABEL] [-U USER] [-e] device
A small python tool firing shell commands to erase and format usb sticks.
positional arguments:
device The device to be erased and formatted. CHOOSE THIS
CAREFULLY!
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-f {ext4,ntfs}, --filesystem {ext4,ntfs}
File system to use for usb-stick. Default is ext4.
-L LABEL, --label LABEL
Label to use for new usb stick filesystem. Default is
USB-STICK
-U USER, --user USER User to create mountpoint for in /media/USER
-e, --erase Fill stick from /dev/zero before creating fileystem.