Robert wrote:
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!
It's OK. When I save the received attachment and diff it against the original, it's an exact match -- not even any whitespace changes.