I've used https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
On 6 Feb 2024 at 20:21, home user wrote:
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From: home user <mattis...@comcast.net>
Subject: how to test USB stick capacity.
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> Good evening,
>
> background
> ==========
> In the wikipedia article about USB Flash drives, it says
> ("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 possess. These are typically low-capacity USB
> drives with modified flash memory controller firmware that emulates larger
> capacity drives (for example, a 2 GB drive being marketed as a 64 GB drive).
> When plugged into a computer, they report 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,[46][47] and in some cases it is possible to repair
> these devices to remove the false capacity information and use its real
> storage limit.
> ------
> A footnote leads me to believe that a tool "H2testw" could detect bad sticks
> and maybe fix them.
>
> question
> ========
> I tried man, dnf, and dnfdragora to find H2testw. Nothing. I also tried to
> find something else to test and fix sticks. Nothing. What do we have for
> this purpose either already installed or that I can get via dnf?
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