microSD card detected with wrong size/capacity

[The Small Box Admin]

Did you look at it with gparted?  Maybe some weird partitioning scheme on
it.

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Lonni J Friedman via Linux-users <
linux-users at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> I've got a weird one here.  A microSD card which came with a junky old
> Android phone claims to be 4GB on its label, however there's some
> weird marketing nonsense about how "3GB reserved for music".  When I
> plug the card into a reader attached to a linux box, its always
> detected as a 1GB card:
> [3181684.541224] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic  STORAGE
> DEVICE   0207 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
> [3181684.541593] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
> [3181685.004787] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdg] 1934848 512-byte logical blocks:
> (990 MB/944 MiB)
>
>
> I'm guessing that there's something weird going on with the card that
> hides 3GB from the OS somehow.  Has anyone run into this before?  Any
> tips on how to unhide the missing 3GB?
>
> thanks
>
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