Empty USB hard drive shows 81% full

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Mon Sep 26 23:16:49 UTC 2005


Daniel Vogel wrote:
>  >Have you tried reformating it? I have had to do that a couple of
>  >times.
>  >
>  >Guy Fraser wrote:
>  >
>  >>I have emptied the trash, run "sync" and rebooted.
> 
> That happend to me once, when i plug it on windows, and after that on linux and 
> it just made a mess on the fat sector.
> 
> I had to format it again, i think i did it on fat12 to be sure a full 
> compatibily on both SO.

Certainly not FAT12 (AFAIK never used anywhere but on floppies).
Almost surely not FAT16.

Mike
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