mint partitioning error

[Dave Stevens]

On Fri, 14 May 2021 02:40:44 +0200
Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> What kind of install do you have on the flash drive? With what kind of
> files system is the flash drives partition formatted?
> 
> Are you using an ISO image on an exfat partition?
> If so, you can't resize the partition, see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Resize_capabilities
> .
> 

fdisk shows:

Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 29 GiB, 31142707200 bytes, 60825600 sectors
Disk model: USB Flash Disk  
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x14cca086

Device     Boot   Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1  *          0  4030463  4030464  1.9G  0 Empty
/dev/sdb2           608     8543     7936  3.9M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/sdb3       4030464 60825599 56795136 27.1G 83 Linux

partition sdb3 shows as type 83 and sdb2 as ef,

it's basically trivial to reformat it and reinstall. I used etcher to
install from a mint mirror's .iso

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