From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 29 02:04:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A80066B for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:04:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from relay02.pair.com (relay02.pair.com [209.68.5.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C595B2A5 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:04:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21060 invoked by uid 0); 29 Mar 2013 02:04:45 -0000 Received: from 173.48.104.62 (HELO ?10.2.2.1?) (173.48.104.62) by relay02.pair.com with SMTP; 29 Mar 2013 02:04:45 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 173.48.104.62 Message-ID: <5154F6BC.7020600@sneakertech.com> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:04:44 -0400 From: Quartz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Subject: Re: Where's the metadata? References: <26967.1364520556@server1.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <26967.1364520556@server1.tristatelogic.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:04:47 -0000 > 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