8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Chris Smart]

2009/12/21 Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com>:
>> su -c "fdisk -l /dev/sdb"
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 4045 MB, 4045930496 bytes
> 120 heads, 55 sectors/track, 1197 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 6600 * 512 = 3379200 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xXXXXXXXXX
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1        1198     3951100   83  Linux

Right, so your USB stick is partitioned with a single partition.

>> mount |grep sdb
>
> /dev/sdb1 on /media/BK type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit)

So that partition is mounted to /media/BK and it is formatted as ext3.
It looks good to me.

The only other thing I have to say is that when you copy your tarball
to the stick, make sure you run:
sync

and then do a checksum comparison. If they are both the same, then you
can safely unmount it and you shouldn't have any problems on your F12
box. If you do, then something else is going on on that side, perhaps
an overclocked CPU or something.

-c