If you’re not used to the command line and you have to do some formatting, it could be intimidating. Fortunately, there is now a graphical tool that would help you with this dilemma. GNOME Format should do wonders for you! It reminds me of the Windows tool for formatting because of its graphical nature. With just a few clicks, you could now format your USB drive when you need to. Great huh?
However, this tool is not yet part of the current distros. You’d have to download GNOME Format here. One of its requirements is valac, so you might want to download that package first.
They warn us though that this tool might be buggy and there isn’t support for floppy disks yet. Awww. Too bad for those of you who are curious about formatting your old floppy disks. Stick with using your USB drives or SD/MM cards for now. Also, formatting is only for FAT16/32 and ext2. Don’t expect it to be a totally complete tool for now.
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