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! <snip>