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Fixing fraudulent USB drives, checking out subdirectories with Git, and leaving Meta

Fight Flash Fraud I came into possession of a fraudulent USB “thumb” drive, fully aware of what I was getting. The device claims to have a capacity of 2 TB, which is nearly impossible, but I wanted to keep it out of a landfill and I didn’t know its true capacity. I figured that one could find the last good sector of such a drive, create a partition that went up to that, and have a perfectly functional (but counterfeit) device. I also assumed that I would have to hack something together to do all this myself-but then I learned about f3 , which does exactly what I want. Specifically, running f3p

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