The only aim of this article is to save all devices and partitions from damage in a GNU/Linux system when you are performing any formatting action from the command line. This is applicable if you can show all partitions available in your system. There are some command line programs to do it. By using these, you can avoid any false formatting action or any other disaster (incorrect dd command, data loss, incorrectly formatted partition) because you will know exactly what device you want to format. They are fdisk, lsblk, blkid, and df. They are built-in tools in Ubuntu operating system.

As opposed to GNOME family system, Kubuntu has KDE Partition Manager as replacement for GParted. We can do many partitioning stuffs like GParted with it. Here, we will give an example about how to format a USB flash drive with KDE Partition manager. We use Kubuntu 15.10 to explain these.