2 GIG limit on usb thumb drives?

[Eberhard Roloff]

Owen Townend wrote:
> 2009/3/25 John Conover <conover at rahul.net>:
>> I can mount 2 gig usb thumb drives, but not 4 gig. Same manufacturer,
>> only size is different.
>>
>> Is there a 2 gig limit?
>>
>>   Thanks,
>>
>>   John
> 
> I currently have a 16 gig usb thumb drive plugged in here without
> issue, so it must be something else.
> What error messages do you get if you try to mount it from the command line?
> 
> N.B. One thing that's common:
> NTFS formatted drives that aren't unmounted cleanly will refuse to
> mount unless forced or mounted/removed from a windows machine
> 
> cheers,
> Owen.
> 
also your 2 GB limit reminds me of the old FAT32 problem, that 
partitions of more than 2GB cannot work properly.

Check what filesystem your 4GB thumb drive is formatted with. If it is 
FATxx, change it to ext3. Should you also work with a Win NT/2k/XP/Vista 
machine, ntfs is a better choice.

Kind regards
Eberhard