I have installed Fedora for a few months now and today I wanted to do the same on another PC but with a different distro so I inserted the USB stick and tried to format. The error I find is “Error unmounting /dev/sda1: target is busy (udisks-error-quark, 14)”. This is what I find by running the lsbl…

You can unmount it with the command umount /dev/sda1. You can also do this from Gnome Disks. Search for “disk” to start it. The unmount button is a small black square under the thing you want to unmount. Gnome disks can also recrate a new partiton table, create a new partition in that table and …

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ernie-07 (Ernest Boyd) May 12, 2025, 3:03pm 6

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