Hi Jacques,

Looks like your mem stick has some fancy partitioning.
It's the last device, /dev/sdd, and it appears to have 4 partitions!
Does it have some 'onboard' software like encryption, vault, etc - SanDisk
stuff?

Are you able to backup the data and give it a clean format?
This might give you the whole 2GB in a 'linear' way.

Kind regards,
Bernard

On 30 January 2010 17:01, Jacques Schrier <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Dear Bernard,
>
> here the output:
> Disk /dev/sda: 4034 MB, 4034838528 bytes
> 128 heads, 31 sectors/track, 1986 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 3968 * 512 = 2031616 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xd4890dc3
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        1986     3939184    7  HPFS/NTFS
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00076053
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1       19086   153308263+  83  Linux
> /dev/sdb2           19087       19457     2980057+   5  Extended
> /dev/sdb5           19087       19457     2980026   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
>
> Disk /dev/sdd: 2021 MB, 2021654016 bytes
> 63 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1010 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 3906 * 512 = 1999872 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x8ef631df
>
> This doesn't look like a partition table
> Probably you selected the wrong device.
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdd1   ?      540844     1042316   979374166   66  Unknown
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>      phys=(734, 123, 14) logical=(540843, 53, 21)
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
>      phys=(120, 143, 6) logical=(1042315, 32, 22)
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sdd2   ?      883091     1892906  1972168331    7  HPFS/NTFS
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>      phys=(187, 180, 14) logical=(883090, 54, 52)
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
>      phys=(784, 0, 13) logical=(793323, 43, 1)
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sdd3   ?      839687     1339804   976730017   7d  Unknown
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>      phys=(252, 59, 46) logical=(839686, 2, 39)
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
>      phys=(139, 118, 4) logical=(240221, 51, 28)
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sdd4   ?     1069986     1072116     4161550   6f  Unknown
> Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
>      phys=(370, 101, 50) logical=(1069985, 6, 11)
> Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
>      phys=(10, 114, 13) logical=(1072115, 59, 44)
> Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
> I hope you can make something out of this.
>
> Jacques
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: Bernard Wanyama 
> <[email protected]<bernard%20wanyama%20%[email protected]%3e>
> >
> *To*: [email protected]
> *Cc*: Linux Users Group Uganda 
> <[email protected]<linux%20users%20group%20uganda%20%[email protected]%3e>
> >
> *Subject*: Re: [LUG] USB Stick
> *Date*: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:43:37 +0300
>
> Hi Jacques,
>
> Could you go to the terminal window and with the USB mem stick plugged in,
> run the following command:
>
> sudo fdisk -l
>
> The output should tell us what a few more details about the disk.
>
> Kind regards,
> Bernard
>
>
> On 30 January 2010 16:02, Jacques Schrier <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Dear LUG members,
>
> I've a small problem with my USB mem stick.
> It's a 2GB stick, but Ubuntu says it's only 940MB big.
>
> Anyone of you an idea??
>
> Jacques
>
>
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