Answer by András Korn for What flash drive geometry depends on? Can I change...
You can override the geometry using e.g. fdisk -H 32 -S 32 /dev/sda. This will cause all cylinders to be 512k long. Since partitions in the msdos partitioning scheme begin on cylinder boundaries, this...
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The geometry (cylinders, heads, sectors) is deprecated and irrelevant even in modern hard disks, let alone flash drives. It is mostly not used in modern operating systems; practically everything uses...
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I have an USB flash drive. Here is its initial info generated by fdisk (Linux): # fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 8053 MB, 8053063680 bytes 16 heads, 60 sectors/track, 16384 cylinders, total 15728640...
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