FORMAT A USB IN LINUX

Run the below commands to format the usb to fat32 filesystem from terminal,

Type in:
lsblk
It gives the list of the filesystems on your device. Select the partition. It will be something like /dev/sdbx

umount /dev/sdxx

then format your device to FAT32

mkdosfs -F 32 -I /dev/sdx

There are also inbuilt packages/softwares which comes with almost all the Linux distributions which can be used for formatting drives.

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