Quoth Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sebastian Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I decided to format it with the one true disk partitioner and have done >> so successfully but the capacity of the card now appears to be >> approximately half what it was before. > > What command(s) did you use?
The usual... 'mklabel msdos', 'print', 'mkpartfs pri fat16 0 1016'. I tried 2032 but having created the new label (partition table) 1016 was the maximum value parted would allow me to use. > What version of parted? 1.7.1 > So there's a printed label that says it's a 2GB card? Yup. > Does cfdisk /dev/sdc show anything different? Nope. Thinking back I think the card must have already been formatted when I bought it from the shop (for use with my phone). Either way, my phone formats it as a 1Gb card too now. Apart from losing data, I now remember noticing some weirdness before invoking 'parted mklabel msdos' on the card. I would receive different capacity information depending on whether I issued the command 'parted print /dev/sdc' or 'parted print /dev/sdc1', and IIRC only the latter command indicated that there was 2Gb of capacity. Sebastian -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts http://sebyte.org/eap.html _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
