Re: USB drive space

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Author: Stephen Partington
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: USB drive space
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 <>
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*
>
> I 💛✞
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