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To install Ubuntu 16.04.3 on my laptop, I used my 8GB pen-drive. The installation of OS has done now. I want to clean this bootable pen-drive to use it normally.I want to clean it completely like we do in GUI.

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Abhijeet Saha
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The easiest way is with dd but you must be careful to specify the device exactly:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX count=1 bs=512

This will erase the partition table / MBR (Master Boot Record) making the pendrive empty and ready for reformatting.

Replace sdX with sdc, sde, etc. matching your pendrive letter revealed by lsblk.

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WinEunuuchs2Unix
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Format your pen-drive using 'Disks' utility in Ubuntu, then you can use it normally. Here is the link for the same : How to format a USB flash drive?

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An easy and safe method is to restore the USB pendrive to a standard storage device with mkusb. It will wipe the current partition table and create an MSDOS partition table and a partition with a FAT32 file system.

See the following links,

help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb

help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/wipe

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There are more details at this link,

Restore a USB drive to a standard storage device

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