Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 09:05 +0100, Neil Bothwick a écrit : > On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:37:54 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > > There is indeed an encryption feature on this key. I've never used it (I > > haven't even downloaded the windows-only software allowing to use it). > > Can it be related to this problem ? > > Possibly. Some USB keys use two partitions for encryption, with the data > being held on the second, larger, encrypted partition. This may also be > why the device is reported as 32MB.
I don't think so : the 32MB is consistent with the database at http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids , if not with reality. The problem is wether or not this database has some influence... The first time I saw those 32 MB (a few days ago, when the key worked and was almost empty), df -h told me there was 1006 MB left on the key. Furthermore, the notice implied it should be reformated with a special windows-only tool to use the encryption feature. > Have you tried repartitioning the > device in Linux, using cfdisk -z (fdisk probably has an option to ignore > any existing partition table too). I hadn't, but it gives me the following answer FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive Press any key to exit cfdisk Thanks for helping, Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
