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

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.

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