8 GB Flash drive formatted at 3.7 GB

[Marcel Rieux]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Mikkel <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> 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.

Possible, if I ever reformat the drive, I'll remove all traces of
partition with fdisk before.