On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage > <dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Are you quite certain yours is an 8 GB device?? > > Arrrgh! Since you asked, I thought I'd check.. and it's indeed a 4 GB! > > I bought this drive at Future Shop, more commonly known as Future > Shark. The price, $10 (CAN) seemed really unbelievable for an 8GB > drive, mainly ~2 years ago, but it now appears inside the package was > a 4GB drive. > > It's still a good price but then often acts weirdly. For some time, I > had the capacity reading at 17 GB with also a reading of about twice > what was written on it. > > I had and still have problems with e2fsck: > > e2fsck -c /dev/sdb > e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009) > e2fsck: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... > e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb I did the change with fdisk: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 4045 MB, 4045930496 bytes 120 heads, 55 sectors/track, 1197 cylinders Units = cylinders of 6600 * 512 = 3379200 bytes Disk identifier: 0x04030201 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 1198 3951100 83 Linux but 2efsck still complains. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
