8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

Mikkel mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Dec 18 23:01:22 UTC 2009


On 12/18/2009 01:59 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> I have a Kingston Data Traveler 8GB Flash drive that was previously
> formatted FAT32. I reformatted it ext3 simply by clicking on the icon
> and choosing "Format", but it still has only 3.7 GB available.
> 
> Any way around this?
> 
You reformatted the existing partition. So it is the same size as
the FAT32 partition. If you want to use the entire drive, you will
need to re-partition it. You will probably want to use gparted for
this. You have the choice of creating a second partition, expanding
the existing partition to use the full drive, or deleting the
current partition, and creating a new one.

Mikkel
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