Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert NicholsrnicholsNOSPAM@comcast.net wrote:

If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize the full 8029470208 bytes.

I was able to do that.

Then I went back and looked at my Kingston - it has 5 "heads," 32 s/t and 99212 "cylinders."

Now the question becomes, if I try that on the Sandisk, will it trash the drive altogether, or would I still be able to use it, or would that fail because there really isn't that much space on the "drive?"

Yeah, I know, greedy me, I want squeeze every byte of storage out of the thing, but why not?

Thanks.

mhr

PS: I'm also sending a query to Sandisk about this - I'll report if they tell me anything useful.