[GRLUG] weird USB problem

[Matt Behrens]

On Feb 19, 2013, at 5:51 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:

> How is this even possible?  Am I missing something obvious?  How can a
> bunch of files still be there after deleting the partition, writing a
> new partition that utilizes the entire drive, and reformatting that
> partition?

I wonder if this has to do with the boot sector trickery I understand distros are using now to allow the same image to be used either as optical or USB Flash media.  Left something behind that fdisk didn't deal with, perhaps?

I would try zeroing out the MBR plus a bit and starting again with fdisk:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1k
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