USB drive space

[Aaron Jones]

You should throw it away. Unsolicited or free usb sticks are not safe. 

> On Aug 10, 2018, at 7:44 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I anything it may be 1GB it really is not a savings to make them that small. I would run something like parted or gparted to get a closer look at the thing.
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 7:33 PM Daniel Stasinski <daniel at genericinbox.com> wrote:
>> Today I got a promotional information USB stick from a retailer and I was able to fdisk and mkfs it to a 3.9mb drive.  It seems like an odd size.  Would it be safe to assume there is more space than it shows and can it be unlocked and accessed?
>> 
>> This is what fdisk currently shows after formatting.
>> 
>> Unpartitioned space /dev/sdb: 3.9 MiB, 4111872 bytes, 8031 sectors 
>> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes 
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes 
>> 
>> Start   End Sectors  Size 
>>    1  8031    8031  3.9M
>> 
>> Daniel P. Stasinski
>> daniel at GenericInbox.com
>> I 💛✞
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