8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Robert Nichols]

Mikkel wrote:
> On 12/20/2009 09:00 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
>> You're right, my hasty extrapolations were wrong. But I don't believe
>> you can get a Flash drive working that will be listed only as /dev/sdb
>> any more than you can have a HD working with only /dev/sda. I have no
>> idea about arrays, I'm talking about standard desktops with one drive.
>>
> Under Linux, you can do both. While you will be asked if that is
> what you really want to do, the tools are happy to let you. Mount
> has no problems mounting /dev/sda if you have formatted /dev/sda.
> (Apposed to formatting /dev/sda1). Windows may not like it, but that
> is another story.

Putting a filesystem on the entire, unpartitioned device is referred
to as "super floppy" or "superfloppy" format.  It's been around, and
supported, since the days of ZIP disks.

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