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GoodaGames

Unable to format my USB Stick (udisks-error-quark, 0)

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I wanted to format my Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3, which I used to install Linux Mint.

I opened Disks, clicked on three vertical dots, and then Format Disk...

The operation failed. Now, there are two huge chunks of unformatted space and a small 1.3GB partition I can't delete.

Every attempt to format the entire disk, create or delete a partition, ends with an error that includes (udisks-error-quark, 0).

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I found a similar issue here:

https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/460

I performed the same steps as u/mmstick, but that didn't solve the issue.

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Is there a (simple) way to fix this?

Posted Feb 22, 2026, 5:05 PM UTC

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