This question is not a duplicate. I followed the thread showing how to format usb but it didn't help (see below for details). Please also read the comments section  I tried to follow  thread to format my USB drive. However, sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 still produces the following error.   mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) mkfs.vfat: unable to discover size of /dev/sdb1   The size of USB pendrive seems to be incorrect:  $ lsblk NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT --truncated-- sdb      8:16   1   7.2G  0 disk  └─sdb1   8:17   1   239M  0 part    As you can see, the USB has size of 7,2G but there is one partition of size 239M.  I also tried wipefs -a /dev/sdb to erase all the partitions in USB thumb. Still, no luck.  Neither sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1  or sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 has worked as I'm still getting mkfs.vfat: unable to discover size of /dev/sdb1.
In Windows there is a straightforward "Format" option in a flash drive's right-click pop-up menu. Where's that in Ubuntu?
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