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. 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
