[PLUG] Filesystem problems with new USB drive

[Russell Senior]

This is interesting, if you haven't seen it before:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruEn7TE4YMM

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Bryan Linton <plug at shoshoni.info> wrote:

> On 2018-07-20 14:48:39, Ben Koenig <techkoenig at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  John,
> >
> > 1 of 2 things is going wrong here.
> >
>
> I'd like to offer a 3rd possibility.  It's possible the drive
> itself could be counterfeit.  There are plenty of websites out
> there with more information, but I'll include this snippet from
> Wikipedia.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive#Counterfeit_products
>
>         Counterfeit USB flash drives are sometimes sold with
>         claims of having higher capacities than they actually
>         have. These are typically low capacity USB drives which
>         are modified so that they emulate larger capacity drives
>         (for example, a 2 GB drive being marketed as a 64 GB
>         drive).
>
>         When plugged into a computer, they report themselves as
>         being the larger capacity they were sold as, but when data
>         is written to them, either the write fails, the drive
>         freezes up, or it overwrites existing data. Software tools
>         exist to check and detect fake USB drives, and in some
>         cases it is possible to repair these devices to remove the
>         false capacity information and use its real storage limit.
>
> I did a bit of searching and found a tool called "f3" that claims
> to be able to detect counterfeit drives.
>
>         http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/
>         https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3/
>         https://askubuntu.com/questions/1011248/
> fakeflashfraud-f3-what-are-the-different-types-of-counterfeits
>
> John, before you continue with trying to format and label the
> drive, I'd recommend you try running the f3 tool mentioned above
> to be sure the drive itself isn't a fake.
>
> If it is, then you're most likely going to lose data if you
> attempt to store any data on it.  You would almost certainly want
> to ask for a refund too.
>
> --
> Bryan
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