Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:04:44 -0400 From: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where's the metadata? Message-ID: <5154F6BC.7020600@sneakertech.com> In-Reply-To: <26967.1364520556@server1.tristatelogic.com> References: <26967.1364520556@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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> The problem is that now, the Windows system seems to think that the > size of the thing is only something like 24.2 Megabytes... *not* the > actual size, which is vastly larger (16GB). >but then at the last second I hesitate and decide to > actually try to _understand_ what's going on here, really, for a change. By default, when looking with disks in explorer, windows will only mess with partitions (slices). In this case, your usb drive has a single partition just big enough to hold the installer, with the remainder of the drive being dead space. You need to delete this partition and create a new one that spans the entire size of the drive. Unfortunately, windows doesn't make this as easy as it should be. You'll need to open your control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management -> disk management > So now I'm reading the man page for glabel(8) glabel is totally not related to your problem at all. glabel is for when you want to refer to disks via a user created identifier string when you can't rely on the device id. > P.P.S. So what _is_ the best tool for just simply taking some sort of > drive... like a USB flash drive, or any other kind of drive for that > matter... and returning it to it's actual size? Use a real partitioning program as opposed to the crap built into the windows right-click menu. On freebsd, this would be 'gpart'. ______________________________________ it has a certain smooth-brained appeal
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