The problem is that now, the Windows system seems to think that the size of the thing is only something like 24.2 Megabytes... *not* the actual size, which is vastly larger (16GB).
but then at the last second I hesitate and decide to actually try to _understand_ what's going on here, really, for a change.
By default, when looking with disks in explorer, windows will only mess with partitions (slices). In this case, your usb drive has a single partition just big enough to hold the installer, with the remainder of the drive being dead space. You need to delete this partition and create a new one that spans the entire size of the drive. Unfortunately, windows doesn't make this as easy as it should be. You'll need to open your control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management -> disk management
So now I'm reading the man page for glabel(8)
glabel is totally not related to your problem at all. glabel is for when you want to refer to disks via a user created identifier string when you can't rely on the device id.
P.P.S. So what _is_ the best tool for just simply taking some sort of drive... like a USB flash drive, or any other kind of drive for that matter... and returning it to it's actual size?
Use a real partitioning program as opposed to the crap built into the windows right-click menu. On freebsd, this would be 'gpart'.
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