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

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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