On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 15:29 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 20:58 -0500, Gene Heskett 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. > >> > > The flash drive could be re-partitioned but to make its file type ext3 > > instead of Fat32 restricts what OS-s can read it. > > Now that i know it's a 4GB drive, I wouldn't format it ext3, but since > it's already formatted ext3 and I don't plan to use it to exchange > data, I'll leave it as it is. I think there is another problem with having pen drives formatted ext3 or ext4. Pen drives can only tolerate a finite number of writes before they crap out. Any format that involves journaling will increase the number of writes to the pen drive and hasten its failure. -- ======================================================================= When the fog came in on little cat feet last night, it left these little muddy paw prints on the hood of my car. ======================================================================= 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
