USB stick partition problems

[bassix-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org]

On 3/8/06, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Maybe you need to blank the start of the device with something like:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=50
>
> That way it can't detect any FAT table signatures at the start of the
> device, which might be what makes it think there is a 1GB filesystem
> there.  After that you should be able to partition it and make new
> filesystems.
>
> Len Sorensen

That seems to have fixed it! Thank you very much!

-Steve.
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