USB drive Filesystem Trouble

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: USB drive Filesystem Trouble
started by: aeSentinel

Posted by aeSentinel on Aug. 16 2006,08:50

G'day.
I tested out DSL and managed to get it installed on my 256MB USB drive as USB-ZIP. I noticed that the filesystem had only 49MB in it, and after formatting the USB drive I found that it wouldn't revert back to the previous 249MB. Partition Magic can't fix the problem.

Any advice?

Cheers.
aeSentinel

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Aug. 16 2006,16:06

Use cfdisk/fdisk/etc and delete all the partitions. Then create one that will take up all of the space.

p.s. formatting doesn't change the actual size of partitions.

Posted by aeSentinel on Aug. 17 2006,08:16

Cheers for the help.