On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage <dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 21:58 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Mikkel <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On 12/18/2009 01:59 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> >> I have a Kingston Data Traveler 8GB Flash drive that was previously >> >> formatted FAT32. I reformatted it ext3 simply by clicking on the icon >> >> and choosing "Format", but it still has only 3.7 GB available. >> >> >> >> Any way around this? >> >> >> > You reformatted the existing partition. So it is the same size as >> > the FAT32 partition. If you want to use the entire drive, you will >> > need to re-partition it. You will probably want to use gparted for >> > this. You have the choice of creating a second partition, expanding >> > the existing partition to use the full drive, or deleting the >> > current partition, and creating a new one. >> >> Ar first sight, your suggestion made a lot of sense but I checked the >> drive with gparted and it sees only one partition. >> >> See: http://cjoint.com/data/mtd0lzbfUF.htm >> >> Thanks for your answer! > > Mikkel, > > Have you tried looking at your drive with good ol' fdisk at a root > command prompt? If your Kingston is like my Vebatim, the output should > look much like this: > > # fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 8086 MB, 8086618112 bytes > 249 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 15438 * 512 = 7904256 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 * 1 1023 7896506 83 Linux fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 4045 MB, 4045930496 bytes 120 heads, 55 sectors/track, 1197 cylinders Units = cylinders of 6600 * 512 = 3379200 bytes Disk identifier: 0x04030201 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 1198 3951100 b W95 FAT32 ================== Very weird: it still sees the partition as FAT32, even though I formatted it ext3. > Otherwise, use fdisk's letter commands ("m" for menu) to delete all old > and create one new max partition of type 83 and "w"rite the new > partition table back to the drive. Then use mke2fs to format that new > partition. Yes, maybe this could work. I'll see tomorrow. Sleep time. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
