Re: how to test USB stick capacity.

2024-02-07 Thread home user
Here we go: On 2/6/24 9:09 PM, home user wrote: Thank-you, Michael, for both posts. I've installed it. It looks like it will take a while to run, and it's late here now.  So I'll give it a try tomorrow. - -bash.4[~]: f3probe --time-ops /dev/sdb F3 probe 8.0 Copyright (C) 2010 Digirati Int

Re: how to test USB stick capacity.

2024-02-07 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
rsion Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. On 6 Feb 2024 at 21:09, home user wrote: Date sent: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 21:09:47 -0700 Subject: Re: how to test USB stick capacit

Re: how to test USB stick capacity.

2024-02-06 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 20:21 -0700, home user wrote: > A footnote leads me to believe that a tool "H2testw" could detect bad > sticks and maybe fix them. I wouldn't trust any ability to "fix" them. If they've faked the size identification, they'd have no qualms about selling reject memory chips, t

Re: how to test USB stick capacity.

2024-02-06 Thread home user
ame: /usr/bin/f3probe On 6 Feb 2024 at 20:21, home user wrote: Date sent: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 20:21:02 -0700 To: Community support for Fedora users From: home user Subject: how to test USB stick capacity. Send reply to: Com

Re: how to test USB stick capacity.

2024-02-06 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
from: Filename: /usr/bin/f3probe On 6 Feb 2024 at 20:21, home user wrote: Date sent: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 20:21:02 -0700 To: Community support for Fedora users From: home user Subject: how to test USB stick capacity. Send rep

Re: how to test USB stick capacity.

2024-02-06 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
I've used https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ On 6 Feb 2024 at 20:21, home user wrote: Date sent: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 20:21:02 -0700 To: Community support for Fedora users From: home user Subject: how to tes

how to test USB stick capacity.

2024-02-06 Thread home user
Good evening, background == In the wikipedia article about USB Flash drives, it says ("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive#Counterfeit_products";) -- Counterfeit USB flash drives are sometimes sold with claims of having higher capacities than they actually possess. These a