On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:58 -0500, "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 19 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >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 thing borked is too pessimistic an analysis. There is a 4GB area on > >the pen drive 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. > > > Huh? In that case, why not 'd'elete that 1st 4Gb partition and make a > new > one 'n' that uses all the drive? And the 't' to set it to type 83, then > write that table to it with a 'w', exit fdisk, and mke2fs /dev/sdX1, > where X > is the same letter used for fdisk. Voila! 8Gb unless it truly is a > broken > bit of tom-foolery. > > -- > Cheers, Gene Could this problem be related to the U3 software that comes preloaded on these? http://www.kingston.com/flash/dt_u3.asp I had a 8 gig sandisk cruzer that wouldn't show all the capacity, but I don't remember if the shortage was that drastic. Sandisk offers a removal tool that gave me back the missing space, but you need to run it with windows and I'm not sure it would work on a different brand. http://www.sandisk.com/Assets/u3/launchpadremoval.exe Barry -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
