[CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition
Robert
kerplop at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jun 16 00:04:16 UTC 2009
Robert Nichols wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>>
>> Robert Nichols wrote:
>>> The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure
>>> out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk
>>> (I have a shell script that does that in a pretty much brute force
>>> way.) and then repartition and re-format the drive using that
>>> geometry. I've never experienced any problem with that.
>>>
>>>
>> That's interesting. Would you consider sharing your script?
>
> Sure. I'll try it as a small attachment here. It that doesn't
> work, and I suspect it won't, I'll have to find some spot where
> I can upload it. I don't have anything like that set up just now.
I'll try it later but I can see none of the usual damage (truncated
and/or wrapped lines or dropped spl chars).
Thanks!
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