Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive

2016-11-28 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Monday, November 28, 2016 12:14:15 AM PYST Doug wrote: > On 11/27/2016 05:11 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Sunday, November 27, 2016 03:02:19 PM Brad Rogers wrote: > >> f3 is in the Debian repos. > > > > For anybody that goes looking for it, it is apparently a "current" package > > for

Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive

2016-11-27 Thread Doug
On 11/27/2016 05:11 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, November 27, 2016 03:02:19 PM Brad Rogers wrote: f3 is in the Debian repos. For anybody that goes looking for it, it is apparently a "current" package for Jessie and Sid, but it is in backports for Wheezy.

Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive

2016-11-27 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, November 27, 2016 03:02:19 PM Brad Rogers wrote: > f3 is in the Debian repos. For anybody that goes looking for it, it is apparently a "current" package for Jessie and Sid, but it is in backports for Wheezy. https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/f3

Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive

2016-11-27 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 19:43:52 -0600 Doug wrote: Hello Doug, >That's a very old page. Does any reader know of an up-to-date Linux >program that serves this purpose? f3 is in the Debian repos. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is /

Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive

2016-11-27 Thread Doug
On 11/27/2016 11:28 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/27/2016 10:07 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2016-11-27 07:02 (UTC-0500): ... It may be an interesting exercise, before first use of a brand new flash drive, to examine it via Gparted and "wipefs /dev/sdX"...

Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive

2016-11-27 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/27/2016 10:07 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2016-11-27 07:02 (UTC-0500): ... It may be an interesting exercise, before first use of a brand new flash drive, to examine it via Gparted and "wipefs /dev/sdX"... I first test that the claimed capacity is va

Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive (was: Error message from GParted...)

2016-11-27 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2016-11-27 07:02 (UTC-0500): ... It may be an interesting exercise, before first use of a brand new flash drive, to examine it via Gparted and "wipefs /dev/sdX"... I first test that the claimed capacity is valid: https://fightflashfraud.wordpress.com/