4 gb usb drive only has 1gb usable in ubuntu

[jherskow]

the title pretty mcuh says it all. its called 4.1 gb drive on the GUI. but it only shows 0.1gb of free space when it should have 3.1 (0.9 is used)

the screenshot says it all.

help?

[nikhilbhardwaj]

what do you get when you type

df -h /media/disk
du -h /media/disk

replace /media/disk with the path where your usb is mounted

[Liolikas]

sudo fdisk -l

may show interesting things too.

[mike555]

try viewing hidden files , you might find a trash can with stuff in it ..........

[cusinmex]

try viewing hidden files , you might find a trash can with stuff in it ..........

yeah.. there might be a recycle or trash folder with all
hidden files..

[credobyte]

sudo rm -r /media/disk/.Trash-1000

If it doesn't help, fire up gparted and check if there's really a 4gb partition inside your USB.

[jherskow]

josh@JoshBook:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for josh:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1647b2fc

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 19086 153308263+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 19087 19457 2980057+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 19087 19457 2980026 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 4110 MB, 4110230016 bytes
127 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7874 * 512 = 4031488 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8ef631df

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 ? 268293 517055 979374166 66 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(734, 123, 14) logical=(268292, 78, 21)

hat was from the sudo- fdisk

no hiddin trash cans...
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[halitech]

looks like it only has 1 partition on it and its 1gig in size. what does Partition editor show?

[drinkpepsi]

Did you buy that drive off of ebay? I've heard they sell alot of phony drives on there. Do you have a pc running windows to see what it shows there?

[egalvan]

Disk /dev/sdb: 4,110 MB, --- 4,110,230,016 bytes
127 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7874 * 512 = 4031488 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8ef631df

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 ? 268293 517055 979374166 66 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(734, 123, 14) logical=(268292, 78, 21)

The bold section seems to support the 4gig claim.

The red sections show problems with the file system.

If this has no data you need to recover, I would fully erase the drive and re-format it.

As a test, use gparted to view the drive, and post a screenshot if at all possible.