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. > -- ======================================================================= A Difficulty for Every Solution. -- Motto of the Federal Civil Service ======================================================================= 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
