SanDisk U3 flash drives - U3 removal

The U3 rubbish can be removed using Linux, without running the Windows tool. (Instructions found buried in the comments to this blog post:

http://www.theatreofnoise.com/2006/08/uninstall-u3-and-free-your-usb-drive.html

)

- Mount the U3 volume, and use the 'mount' command to get the device name (/dev/sr1 in my case).

- Change directory to /sys/class/block/sr1/device (change 'sr1' as applicable).

- Enter 'echo 1 > delete'.

- Voila!