I am trying to access a USB thumb drive.
The drive has been formatted using Windows 10's format utility. Nothing fancy: One (empty) FAT32 partition (named "VOLUME") taking up the drive's entire capacity (1GB). I verified that the thumb drive is working by running h2testw (under Windows) which reported no drive errors.
I am now trying to reformat the device to ext3 as I will only use it from the Raspbery Pi. I am following this guide.
However, fdisk
is showing me really strange output for the device (see picture):
This looks like complete garbage to me.
What's going on there?
Can I simply ignore this issue, delete the partitions and start over?