Disk on Key slowly getting smaller

[Dotan Cohen]

On 08/03/2008, p.daniels <teeahr1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 07 March 2008 18:14:36 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>  > I have noticed that Disk on Key devices slowly get smaller capacities
>  > when used with Kubuntu. I have not had the opportunity to check this
>  > with other Linux distributions.
>
>
> I always have that problem eventually, even when using a key strictly for
>  data. I think it's just the nature of the media. Anybody feel free to correct
>  me or clarify here, but that's always been my perception.
>

I thought that maybe parts of it were going bad, and the bad sectors
were not being used, but a Windows reformat restores the space.

Dotan Cohen

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