<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>You should throw it away. Unsolicited or free usb sticks are not safe. </div><div><br>On Aug 10, 2018, at 7:44 PM, Stephen Partington <<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 7:33 PM Daniel Stasinski <<a href="mailto:daniel@genericinbox.com">daniel@genericinbox.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Today I got a promotional information USB stick from a retailer and I was able to <i>fdisk</i> and <i>mkfs</i> 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?<div><br></div><div>This is what fdisk currently shows after formatting.<br><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Unpartitioned space /dev/sdb: 3.9 MiB, 4111872 bytes, 8031 sectors</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><br>Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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<br><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Start</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> End</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sectors</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Size</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span><br> 1 8031 8031 3.9M<br></span></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-1613918217756007513gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-size:12.8px">Daniel P. Stasinski</b><br><a href="mailto:daniel@GenericInbox.com" target="_blank">daniel@GenericInbox.com</a><br></div><font size="4">I</font> 💛<font size="4">✞</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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