fdisk and I can double check with du and probably lsblk.

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defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

On Fri, 1 Sep 2023, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Thu, 2023-08-31 at 20:06 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > I used a flash drive earlier and removed it but now have an /dev/sdb drive
> > with 8 megs size on the computer that remains after power is shut off when
> > power is turned on again.
>
> How do you determine the size?
>
> If I connect an USB stick and then run...
>
> • rocketmouse@archlinux ~
> $ cd Desktop/
> • rocketmouse@archlinux ~/Desktop
> $ mkdir mount_point_usb_stick
> • rocketmouse@archlinux ~/Desktop
> $ mount /dev/sdz2001 /home/rocketmouse/Desktop/mount_point_usb_stick/
> mount: /home/rocketmouse/Desktop/mount_point_usb_stick: must be superuser to 
> use mount.
>        dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
>
> ...I missed that the USB stick wasn't mounted, but write something using the 
> "mount point"...
>
> • rocketmouse@archlinux ~/Desktop
> $ echo hallo > /home/rocketmouse/Desktop/mount_point_usb_stick/text.txt
>
> ...I'm quite sure it will be there after a reboot, without the USB stick
> attached, since text.txt was written to the internal SSD.
>
> Just an idea!
>

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