Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive

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Subject: Re: before first use of a brand new flash drive
From: Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 11:28:18 -0600
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On 11/27/2016 10:07 AM, Felix Miata wrote:

Richard Owlett composed on 2016-11-27 07:02 (UTC-0500):

...

It may be an interesting exercise, before first use of a brand
new flash drive, to examine it via Gparted and "wipefs
/dev/sdX"...


I first test that the claimed capacity is valid:
https://fightflashfraud.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/h2testw-gold-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/


Thank you. The page was interesting reading. It got me thinking.

I haven't done any significant programming since CPU's heatedbuildings with 12AX7's ;/

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