Formatting SD Cards

[rbradt]

I have a mini SD Card, and my laptop reads it just find. As far as I can tell, I am able to delete files from the card, but I was wondering if there were any actual formatting utilities for Ubuntu??? Any ideas?

Thanks ahead of time!

[Limpan]

Try Gparted. It's in the repositories.

[PmDematagoda]

Install Gparted using:-

sudo apt-get install gparted

After installation Gparted can be run from System>Administration>Partition Editor and you can format the SD card from that.

[rbradt]

Thanks a lot to the both of you!! Gparted was exactly what I was looking for!

[wellybelly]

Hi,

I had some trouble with gparted mounting and unmounting the SD card, but this forum post:
http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/browse_thread/thread/2e054693dca41e38

explains another way to do it, using mkfs.