On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 23:25 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage 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 > > The key part to look for is the "8086 MB". If your 8 GB thumb drive only > shows something like 3.7 GB under fdisk, it's borked up internally and > you're done. I thing borked is too pessimistic an analysis. There is a 4GB area on the pen ddrive that is not partitioned nor is it formatted in any way, according to fdisk. I wold just ignore the 4GB area and don;r worry about it. > > 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. > > --Doc Savage > Fairview Heights, IL > -- ======================================================================= I hope you millionaires are having fun! I just invested half your life savings in yeast!! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
