A couple of days ago the nice people from MBF handed out 512 Mb USB sticks at the train station. It has a small ISO9660 (CD) partition which directs Windows users to their web site. The rest (500 Mb or so) is left as an empty vfat partition. I did the right thing and went to the web site and read it in detail. Now I want to give the USB to my child. He is too young to take out insurance so I want to remove CD partition to stop annoying pop-ups. It says the CD file system is read-only (obviously) and won't let me delete the files from it. It seems the simplest thing is to just reformat the whole device. However, I'm getting a little out of my league thinking about partitions versus the whole device. fdisk etc. seem to be partition-based. Should I just "dd" all over it? nb: The USB stick shows up as /dev/scd1 (ISO 9660) and /dev/sdd1 (vfat)
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