usb2format For Linux

usb2format is a graphical utility tailore specifically for the GNU/Linux operating system, allowing users to easily and quickly format USB flash drives. It is a completely free tool, distributed under an open source license. usb2format also works with SD cards.

While the Microsoft Windows operating system has a build-in program for such tasks, the GNU/Linux operating system only features a command-line tool for formatting USB sticks.

To use the usb2format utility to format USB flash drives on your GNU/Linux distribution, just download the latest release of the program from either its official website (see the homepage link at the end of the review) or via Softpedia, save the package on your Home directory and use an archive manager utility to unzip it.

Then, simply plug your USB flash drive in a USB port and start the application by double clicking the usb2format.py file inside the extracted directory or from the command-line interface, by running the ‘python usb2format.py’ command.

Make sure that you choose your USB stick and the desired filesystem you want to use for formatting the device (FAT32 and NTFS are supported) from the graphical user interface (GUI) of usb2format.

Taking a short look under the hood of the usb2format project, we can notice that it has been written entirely in the Python programming language, using the GTK+ and WebKitGTK+ technologies for its graphical user interface.

We have successfully tested the application on low-end computers supporting only the 32-bit CPU architecture, as well as on modern PCs powered by a 64-bit processor. usb2format should work without issues on any Linux kernel-based operating system.