Ubuntu
usb-creator package

  1. Bug #1300361
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1300361

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Yu Ning (yuningdodo) wrote : Re: cannot format when no partition table is present

Hi, I have proposed two patches for this issue on trusty:

https://code.launchpad.net/~yuningdodo/ubuntu/trusty/usb-creator/usb-creator.lp1361474+lp1300361-recreate-udisks-client/+merge/232852
https://code.launchpad.net/~yuningdodo/ubuntu/trusty/util-linux/util-linux.backport-utopic-2.25-8ubuntu1/+merge/232848

With these two patches I can erase the usb stick successfully in below situations on trusty:
1. dos partition table and at least one partition
2. dos partition table without any partition
3. no partition table

For anyone who would like to give them a try, please refer to bug #1059872 comment #49 on how to build the backported util-linux.