On Wed, 2021-12-22 at 16:18 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > Install package f3 and run the f3probe. > Probable a fake flash. Bought an 8g flash that was too > cheap. It comes up originally as 4 2T usb devices, but the > f3probe calls it as fake, and reports it as 4 about 64G > devices so it again looks nice, but is useless fake device. > Facebook SCAMs that they keep pushing and getting > bigger and bigger.
NB: Don't expect to be able to recover data from the drive after this. If the drive is fake, the test is going to overwrite data. Description : F3 is a utility to test for fake flash drives and cards. It is a : Free Software alternative to h2testw. f3write will fill the : unused part of a filesystem with files NNNN.fff with known : content, and f3read will analyze the files to determine whether : the contents are corrupted, as happens with fake flash. A real drive should just get further filled up to capacity, fake drives often wrap-around when filled up beyond their real capacity. It boggles the mind how someone could go to the trouble of making fake drives. Is it just selling of failed builds? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.49.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 30 15:51:32 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure