[SOLVED] 4 GB Flash drive become 140MB

Gruntz · 2008-09-23 18:06:59

Hello everyone.

A few days ago I downloaded arch img from some of the mirrors. I set it on a usb flash memory stick as it is said in the wiki (using dd command). The flash drive was 4GB, and then it become 140MB, because I downloaded the ftp install. I tryed to format the the flash memory using mkfs, but I am still seeing the flash as 140MB. What should I do to be able to use all the space (4GB) on the flash?

Regards.

Last edited by Gruntz (2008-09-24 10:19:28)

alanhaggai · 2008-09-23 18:22:59

What is the output of fdisk -l? It is possible that the rest is free space or part of another partition in the flash drive.

Gruntz · 2008-09-23 18:26:33

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 33 149778+ b W95 FAT32
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 1, 9)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(18, 165, 55) logical=(32, 135, 35)

This is fdisk -l. It is W95 FAT32, because a friend of mine tryed to format the flash drive under MS Windows XP.

alanhaggai · 2008-09-23 18:35:27

I guess the rest is free space. Try creating a partition:

fdisk /dev/sdb

Gruntz · 2008-09-23 18:51:17

alanhaggai, thank you. It is working now. You are the best

alanhaggai · 2008-09-23 18:52:45

Glad that it worked.

Daenyth · 2008-09-23 19:23:34

Please mark this thread as [SOLVED]

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[SOLVED] 4 GB Flash drive become 140MB

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