[Novalug] usb sticks

gregory pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Tue Jul 10 19:58:21 EDT 2007


On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:18:27PM -0400, donjr wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 18:30 -0400, gregory pryzby wrote:
> > I got a 2GB (no name from MicroCenter) USB stick and is 'acting
> > weird'/
> > 
> > I can put about 400 files (500MB) and it says it is out of space. I
> > tried to look at the FS w/ fdisk -l and it is 'all hosed'.
> > 
> > I am not sure if I should format it,  but if so, I need to use it on
> > Mac and Linux.
> > 
> > # fdisk /dev/sdb1
> > 
> > Command (m for help): p
> > 
> > Disk /dev/sdb1: 2097 MB, 2097119232 bytes
> > 65 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 4030 * 512 = 2063360 bytes
> > 
> > This doesn't look like a partition table
> > Probably you selected the wrong device.
> > 
>  { The above says it all, the rest of the output was per junk. }
> 
> You selected the WRONG device.
> It's
>   fdisk /dev/sdb
> 
> sdb1: is most likely(1) a partition on the device 'sdb'

DoH.... silly stupid me... didn't even READ what i did.... FAT16.
Maybe I should do fat32
 
> Now try:
>  # sfdisk -l /dev/sdb
> 
> And see what you get, it should be a whole lot more reasonable.
> 
> 
> (1) - "most likely" - as assumed by the standard LSB naming usage.

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