06-14-2017, 08:25 AM
You're welcome -- glad everything worked out.
dd version 8.25 will show progress if you use "status=progress" in command.
At first, I only read your last reply and thought you had to resort to using dd on the drive. Was a bit surprised because I had thought wipefs command would have fixed it. Then saw your edit to prior post where you stated wipefs did fix problem and you didn't need to try dd. So, just to emphasize for any future readers of this thread, use the wipefs command if you run into same problem. Use dd only as a last resort. And make sure you correctly specify the device name for whatever external drive or USB stick you're trying to format by substituting the correct drive letter in place of "X" in "sdX" with either command, or you may end up wiping out the wrong drive.
dd version 8.25 will show progress if you use "status=progress" in command.
At first, I only read your last reply and thought you had to resort to using dd on the drive. Was a bit surprised because I had thought wipefs command would have fixed it. Then saw your edit to prior post where you stated wipefs did fix problem and you didn't need to try dd. So, just to emphasize for any future readers of this thread, use the wipefs command if you run into same problem. Use dd only as a last resort. And make sure you correctly specify the device name for whatever external drive or USB stick you're trying to format by substituting the correct drive letter in place of "X" in "sdX" with either command, or you may end up wiping out the wrong drive.
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