I'm seeing this issue, too. (I've encountered it in the course of
setting up a "USB Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon install" as described at
Pendrivelinux.)
Specifically, this is what I'm using/encountering:
4GB Kingston USB 2.0 Drive
After attempting to write new partitions (as described in the
Pendrivelinux tutorial) onto my USB drive, I received a warning that the
write failed (sorry, I do not have the exact warning output, as I was
performing the operation from LiveCD at the time).
Here's the interesting thing:
After I reboot, fdisk -l lists my USB drive as follows:
Disk /dev/sdb: 4126 MB, 4126670848 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 15742 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 15742 4029936 b W95 FAT32
However, if I use fdisk to examine the partitions in detail, it lists
the following information:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ubuntu# fdisk /dev/sdb1
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb1: 4126 MB, 4126654464 bytes
127 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7874 * 512 = 4031488 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6f20736b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1p1 * 1 187 736188 6 FAT16
/dev/sdb1p2 188 1023 3291332 83 Linux
So, the information listed by fdisk (e.g., System information) seems to be
inconsistent.
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fdisk doesn't write partition table
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/58331
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