Re: OT: Garbage on new USB Flash Drive

cs_posting@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Jun 9, 4:02 pm, "Paul Hovnanian P.E." <p...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just picked up a SanDisk 2GB drive (18.00 $US). When I mounted it, it
has already been loaded with a subdirectory structure and a bunch of
mystery binaries.

Sandisk stick's I've bought have come with some monstrosity called U3,
which causes linux to see the device as containing two physical
volumes one of which it can't do much with. There's a utility for
removing it that you can download, but it kind of only works on
windows or perhaps OSX machines.

Hmm. The fine print on the package says something about U3. That may be
it.

There doesn't appear to be a second partition. Only 6% of the drive is
used (so maybe its a tiny partition). Its possible that, upon inserting
the drive in a Windows machine, the application is automatically
launched, splitting the drive in two.

In that case, its coming off.

It's really too bad that we don't have a way to utilize the open
source underpinning of OSX to make a wine-like compatibility layer for
running those applications on linux, or I suppose if it fits your
preference ordinary BSD.

If I want to carry my own s/w around, I'll load a live Linux system on a
bootable memory stick.

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