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Asked: 2019-01-13 16:43:27 +0800 CST

how to reformat USB drive on lubuntu 18.10 for macOSX compatibility?

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I have a 16 GB SanDisk USB stick formatted as a Lubuntu 16.04 LTS i386 startup USB drive. How do I reformat it in Lubuntu 18.10 to be a "regular" USB drive to move files between macOS and Lubuntu?

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  1. I would suggest re-formatting your [usb-thumb] device using KDE partition Manager

    If you select your device, and click "New" you will see a window like enter image description here

    To have the drive recognized and usable in both OSes you need to use a format both can use. The most likely chosen is probably 'fat32' (not 'ext4' which my box and screengrab shows; fat32 can be used by windows computers as well, but note it has a maximum filesize that can be reached for very long HD.videos).

    Mac only formats can likely also be selected, as I don't use a mac - I'll point you to How to read and write HFS+ journaled external HDD in Ubuntu without access to OS X? which provides information about what packages must be added to add HFS support to your box).

    note: my image was taken from 19.04; but I'd expect it to look pretty much the same as 18.10

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