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Originally Posted by porphyry5
My computer is Acer C720, its OS is current Arch Linux.
The Kindle has 4GB total storage, which includes 2.8GB user storage, can't tell you its model no. right now. Purchased new from Amazon Digital Services.
This shows on the computer via cfdisk as Unassigned free space, the 1.2GB system space is hidden, does not show at all.
Rebooting makes no difference, nor did using the device to download items from Kindle store (they appear in my Library in the Kindle, but to the computer they do not exist).
I believe this is the exact same model as I lost, in which the user space was always available as a 2.8GB FAT32 partition, originally containing 4 directories, Documents...etc
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The only way to see the kindle's entire flash memory is to jailbreak and use CLI utilities while logged in to the kindle.
What you see over the USB port is an USB mass storage export of the kindle's /mnt/us partition.
The best way I know of to learn what your computer is seeing is to look at the last 10 lines or so of the output of the dmesg command on your computer to get a baseline, then connect the kindle over USB and run dmesg again.
You should be able to look up your kindle on your "Manage Your Content and Devices" page at amazon.com and among the things listed is the device serial number, the first 6 or 8 characters of which will determine the exact model.
If your computer is trying to auto mount, it may be using incorrect parameters. The output of dmesg might help know the correct mount parameters to use.