site I found didn't seem to have download option, but it is in Fedora repo
dnf whatprovides f3probe Last metadata expiration check: 1:04:55 ago on Wed 07 Feb 2024 12:35:47 PM ChST. f3-8.0-5.fc39.x86_64 : Utility to test for fake flash drives and cards Repo : @System Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/f3probe On 6 Feb 2024 at 20:21, home user wrote: Date sent: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 20:21:02 -0700 To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> From: home user <mattis...@comcast.net> Subject: how to test USB stick capacity. Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > 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? > -- > _______________________________________________ > 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, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mi...@guam.net mailto:msetze...@gmail.com mailto:msetze...@gmx.com Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- _______________________________________________ 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, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue