marko
2006-06-18, 04:05 PM CDT
I just got this 1GB Memorex Mini-Traveller flash drive for a good price.
I knew this flash drive has some extra Windows software in
it but knew it wouldn't work in Linux and Solaris so I figured
I'd just delete their installed software and recover the space for files.
I didn't really care about the functionality of that stuff anyway.
The thing is, when you insert it, Fedora sees two partitions,
in my case /dev/sdb1 is the typical Fat16 and had most of the
space (997 some Megs). But then there's this other partition
/dev/scd0 that seems to look like a iso9660 readonly partition.
Ok then, I figured I'd just delete the two partitions and make
a single big one of the space.
When I go into fdisk to destroy the iso one, fdisk doesn't seem able to,
is this iso9660 some kind of REALLY readonly memory in the
drive like a ROM chip so all I can do is just ignore that 4 Meg?
$> df -T
/dev/scd0 iso9660 4136 4136 0 100% /media/disk
/dev/sdb1 vfat 997104 0 997104 0% /media/TravelDrive
The 4 meg is not a big chunk to lose but I don't want that annoying
extra useless partition to automount.
UPDATE: I found this post where someone contacted Memorex and
memorex said it can't be removed:
memorex post (http://www.linux.ie/lists/pipermail/ilug/2006-January/085739.html)
so my ROM theory is probably
how it was implemented (which was probably smart since that
stuff is probably where that password security software is stored
and this ensures it can't be tampered with)
Mark
I knew this flash drive has some extra Windows software in
it but knew it wouldn't work in Linux and Solaris so I figured
I'd just delete their installed software and recover the space for files.
I didn't really care about the functionality of that stuff anyway.
The thing is, when you insert it, Fedora sees two partitions,
in my case /dev/sdb1 is the typical Fat16 and had most of the
space (997 some Megs). But then there's this other partition
/dev/scd0 that seems to look like a iso9660 readonly partition.
Ok then, I figured I'd just delete the two partitions and make
a single big one of the space.
When I go into fdisk to destroy the iso one, fdisk doesn't seem able to,
is this iso9660 some kind of REALLY readonly memory in the
drive like a ROM chip so all I can do is just ignore that 4 Meg?
$> df -T
/dev/scd0 iso9660 4136 4136 0 100% /media/disk
/dev/sdb1 vfat 997104 0 997104 0% /media/TravelDrive
The 4 meg is not a big chunk to lose but I don't want that annoying
extra useless partition to automount.
UPDATE: I found this post where someone contacted Memorex and
memorex said it can't be removed:
memorex post (http://www.linux.ie/lists/pipermail/ilug/2006-January/085739.html)
so my ROM theory is probably
how it was implemented (which was probably smart since that
stuff is probably where that password security software is stored
and this ensures it can't be tampered with)
Mark