Dear Bernard,

the mem stick is actually empty and with showing hidden files can't see
anything on it.
A clean format is no problem.
Will try and let you know.

Jacques


-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Wanyama <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: Linux Users Group Uganda <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LUG] USB Stick
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:06:32 +0300

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]>
        To: [email protected]
        Cc: Linux Users Group Uganda <[email protected]>
        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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