[CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition
Robert Nichols
rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.netSun Jun 14 15:25:36 UTC 2009
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MHR wrote: > Semi-OT? > > I just got a new SanDisk 8GB flash drive, and, as usual, it came with > the U3 software (for Windoze) on a "CD" partition and considerably > less than 8GB on the disk partition. I put it into my WinXP portable > and told U3 to delete itself, but I still can't get at the old U3 part > of the drive. I've tried WinXP's format command, disk management and > CentOS's fdisk, and nothing will give me more than 7,872,512 bytes per > cylinder, times 1019 cylinders yields 8,022,089,728 bytes. Is that > right, or should there be more? fdisk also reports that the drive has > 8029 "MB", or 8029470208 bytes, which is 7,380,480 bytes difference > (until it gets allocated into the 8,022,089,728 bytes of the > partition) - I'm thinking this is a standard formatting loss. 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. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.
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