[Sussex] Ubuntu's being weird with MP3 player

[linux at oneandoneis2.org]

Evening all,

as some of you might remember, my other half uses Ubuntu. She's just  
run into a problem with it: She plugged in her MP3 player and removed  
a large number of MP3s (and Oggs) but this didn't free up any space,  
and cfdisk showed the reason why: Every time she deletes a file from  
the flash disk, it shrinks that partition by the size of that file.

Not ideal, and even more annoying, we can't repartition & reformat the  
disk successfully in Ubuntu - we get a "superblock" error message. So  
she's having to use Windows to get anywhere with her MP3 player.

And that's not a good thing!

Any idea on why Ubuntu is being weird like this?

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