Delete all partitions of USB key

By xngo on February 21, 2019 

# Assuming your USB device is /dev/sdX
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1k count=2048
sync
partprobe /dev/sdX
 
# sync: To commit buffer cache to disk
# partprobe: To re-read partition table without rebooting. Otherwise, reboot.
Linux

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