How to use flash drive ?

[Bob Goodwin - W2BOD]

I received a Father's day gift -  PNY 4 Gig flash drive.

FC-6 sees it as /dev/sdc1, /media/USB2FD and fdisk reports as below.  
How do I
Use this gadget?  I think I saw something on the list advising
not to reformat or change the file system?

Can I use it as is and how do I deal with it?

Bob Goodwin


Disk /dev/sdc1: 4127 MB, 4127178752 bytes
127 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7874 * 512 = 4031488 bytes

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1p1   ?      245877      481063   925929529+  68  Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(116, 100, 32) logical=(245876, 10, 29)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(288, 101, 46) logical=(481062, 82, 59)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc1p2   ?      168934      237384   269488144   79  Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(168933, 92, 47)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(0, 13, 10) logical=(237383, 108, 42)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc1p3   ?       68452      246045   699181456   53  OnTrack DM6 Aux3
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(345, 32, 19) logical=(68451, 100, 18)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(324, 77, 19) logical=(246044, 29, 49)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc1p4   ?      177119      177121       10668+  49  Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(87, 1, 0) logical=(177118, 8, 36)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(335, 78, 2) logical=(177120, 98, 44)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order