8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Tim]

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 01:02 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
> Very weird: it still sees the partition as FAT32, even though I
> formatted it ext3.

When you prep a disc, you specify the partition types that you want, and
formatting tools may format the partition with the same file system
type, by default.  But you can format a partition with a different file
system type, and that won't change the description in the partition.  

Probably not a problem, but can surprise you if you reformat, and you
end up with a file system type that you didn't expect.

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