How to repair corrupted USB drive in Linux
If you have a USB drive you can’t read or write or it’s shrunk you should follow steps below.
Locate the name of your USB drive with lsblk command.
Remove old partitions
Go to fdisk using the following command and delete all partitions.
Type d and press enter and proceed with d and enter to delete another portion, if necessary.
New partitions
Next, we need to create a new partition.
Type n for new partition.
Type p to make this primary.
Type 1 to make this the first partition.
enter to accept default first sector and last sector.
Type w to write the new partition information
Next, you need to unmount drive with:
New filesystem:
Create filesystem with the following commands:
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